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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:54:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        stanb@awod.com (Stan Brown)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to configure sendmail to show "From" as ISP account?
Message-ID:  <199904232354.TAA19948@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990423232538.8E67B14E1E@hub.freebsd.org> from Stan Brown at "Apr 23, 99 07:23:04 pm"

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Stan Brown wrote,
> 	I have a FreebSD machine which serves as my gateway to the world. I can
> 	mail from it to any site I want to, directly. However since I don't
> 	have a domain name, I can't reciev mail directly. I use fetchmail to
> 	retrieve mail form my ISP's spool.
> 
> 	Yhe final peice of this puzzle is to get the messages to show as coming
> 	from the IPS. How can I configure sendmail to do this? Oh, BTW my login
> 	name is different on my machines than at the ISP, so I need to change
> 	it alos.

Personally, I find that just adding a 'Reply-To' line to my ISP
address works just fine. However, look for 'masquerading' in the
sendmail documentation to see how to "fake" a domain name. As for
changing the username... I've never felt the need to do it.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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