Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:33:38 -0500 From: Edmond Baroud <SoHo@admin.fido.ca> To: Edmond Baroud <SoHo@admin.fido.ca> Cc: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mail problem Message-ID: <20030306183338.GA54788@admin.fido.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030306174404.GA43840@admin.fido.ca> References: <OE36rhVRAGMd4uzHNjd00000cb8@hotmail.com> <20030306170049.GA78754@gothmog.gr> <OE5498KtdhQYZkxOjmf0000cc97@hotmail.com> <20030306174404.GA43840@admin.fido.ca>
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As someone else has already pointed out, configuring /usr/share/sendmail/cf/YourFile.mc and building it, is the "clean" way to do it. Ed. Quoting Edmond Baroud (SoHo@admin.fido.ca): > you have config your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to masquerade a FQDN. > the only thing I can tell u to add and try is: > > DMYourFQDNhere > eg: DMhotmail.com > > you'll get your email from b1henning@hotmail.com if your Unix user is b1henning. > if this doesnt work, search for how to config your sendmail.cf's version for masquerading, > old versions require more options at the bottom of the file in the envelope rewriting options. > > Ed. > > > Quoting Brian Henning (b1henning@hotmail.com): > > > On 2003-03-06 10:51, Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > i am able to perform the following command fine when i want to send > > > > mail on the local network. > > > > > > > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" henninb@localhost > > > > > > > > is there a flag that i can pass to mail to tell it to use the proper > > > > server for when i want to perform this operation to an address > > > > outside my local network? > > > > > > > > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" b1henning@hotmail.com > > > > > > Have you checked your /var/log/maillog file? Any hints there? > > > > > > When you say that you are unable to use mail(1), do you mean that you > > > get the message returned to your local mailbox? If yes, what is the > > > precise error that the failed delivery contains? > > > > > > - Giorgos > > > > > > > ... while talking to mail.navitaire.com.: > > >>> MAIL From:<henninb@trinity.the-matrix.net> SIZE=389 > > <<< 553 5.1.8 <henninb@trinity.the-matrix.net>... Domain of sender address henni > > nb@trinity.the-matrix.net does not exist > > > > > > the error seems to point to the domain name of my internal network... is there a > > way to change this such that the server will accept my emial? > > > > thanks, > > brian > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Edmond Baroud > UNIX Systems Admin mailto:SoHo@admin.fido.ca > Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 > "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are." > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Edmond Baroud UNIX Systems Admin mailto:SoHo@admin.fido.ca Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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