Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:05:54 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: D W <lists@duanewinner.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail on server with ip aliases Message-ID: <486C6C42.8070607@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87od5fetjw.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <97351faa0807020856o102f1a0cwd4fb334d5d708f46@mail.gmail.com> <87od5fetjw.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:56:58 -0400, "D W" <lists@duanewinner.net> wrote:=
>> Hello,
>>
>> Having a problem with sendmail on some of my servers supporting severa=
l
>> virtual apache hosts. Because these servers have 5-10 ip aliases bound=
, it
>> sometimes trips up sendmail when sending outbound mail to my smarthost=
=2E All
>> servers are configured to use the same smarthost. But on one of the ho=
sts,
>> sendmail will send out as the one of the virtual hosts instead of the =
main
>> host, which is what I need.
>>
>> Example: webhost01.webdomain.com is the host.
>> Five ip aliases for apache virtual servers:
>=20
> Something is probably missing below the last quoted line.
>=20
> Are you using jails for the virtual hosts? If not, then you are
> probably using *one* Sendmail instance for all the domains, which still=
> sends emails as the primary hostname but should work fine...
>=20
You can also force sendmail to send /from/ a specific IP by putting some
something like the following into /etc/mail/$(hostname).mc=20
dnl Send via the IP number that correctly reverses to our EHLO
CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Name=3DMTA, Family=3Dinet, Addr=3D12.34.56.78')
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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