Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:41:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com (Francis J. Bruening) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd) Subject: Re: How to set up mail / do I really need to hack sendmail? Message-ID: <199910220041.UAA31035@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMAEAECEAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> from "Francis J. Bruening" at "Oct 21, 1999 12:18:51 pm"
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Francis J. Bruening wrote, [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > > I recently installed 3.3-STABLE, and am trying to get my mail to work > correctly. My setup is simple, and I would assume fairly typical. > > My home machine is connected via cable to my ISP (@Home in this case) > > I have a dhcp assigned IP, and my hostname is c583119-a (assigned by dhcp). > The FQDN is c583119-a.potlnd.or.home.com. > > the LAN I'm on has a mail server "mail" (I have the IP #), and I have a POP3 > account on the server fjbruening. I can send and recieve mail to my mail > server > address "fjbruening@home.com", which is what I want to be able to do. > > My problem: (there are 2) > > I'm using mutt, and often mail gets bounced because I get a msg saying > "sender domain must exist..." Hmmm... @Home's DNS should have valid reverse-lookup for you. That should not really happen. > I fixed that by modifying a line in my muttrc > "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -ffjbruening@<FQDN of mail server>" > > Now, however the return address people see from me is > "c583119-a.potlnd.or.home.com", which they can't get to... > > 1) whats the easiest way to supply the reply address of > "fjbruening@home.com" > 2) is the muttrc fix for being a 'real' account the right way to fix this? If you have the sources, go to, /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf And read the README. Pay particular attention to the 'nullclient' feature and MASQUERADE_AS. Then again, you can be like me and just put a 'reply-to' line in all of the mail. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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