Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:51:00 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Ruben de Groot" <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sendmail masquerading configuration Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEFBFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050208124715.GA75895@ei.bzerk.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ruben de Groot > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:47 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Ian Moore; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration > > > > > > X-Authentication-Warning: myhost.foo.bar: root set sender to > > someuser using -f > > Sorry, but this simply isn't true. I have just tested this. Warnings > like this might get generated when you remove root from the > TRUSTED_USERS macro; *NOT* when you remove it from EXPOSED_USERS. > Your right, me bad! > > It also makes it harder to troubleshoot when someone external to > > your system is sending bogus junk to you. > > I agree. As I said in the part of my message you snipped: > > "BTW, I agree that masquerading is NOT the proper way to do > these things." > > > And while it's not applicable now, with older versions of sendmail > > this would definitely break all your scripts that used e-mail. > > > > Use of the -f flag is what he needs to do. > > Fine. But the OP's problem concerned mail send by cron. How would you > instruct cron to use the -f flag? (There's a MAILTO environment > variable in cron, but no MAILFROM) > I would probably install src/usr.sbin/ and recompile cron to use the -f flag. The flags are settible in cron/config.h in the source, FreeBSD uses #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t" /*-*/ just change this to #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -froot@verizon.net -odi -oem -oi -t" /*-*/ Ted
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