Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:33:14 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Ghulam Dastgir' <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DNS/Sendmail problems Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B7F@site2s1>
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That's all nice, assuming that it is actually set to masquerade properly. The problem is probably due to your mailer not your sendmail, although sendmail could be configured to re-write your outgoing headers. Check the sendmail faq. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Ghulam Dastgir [SMTP:banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 1:09 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DNS/Sendmail problems > > Funny one this. > > There I am happily sending and receiving email then one day all of a > sudden > I can't send email. The problem, my ISP's mail server complains that it > doesn't recognise the domain being given when I send my email out. > > Apparently sendmail says my full email name is: > banta@voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk, I know this is nonsense because > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk is the hostname of my FBSD box (shortname > voyager) and my domain is ghulam.force9.co.uk. > So why is sendmail doing this? > > I've checked my /etc/sendmail.cf file and made sure that I am masquerading > as my proper domain name i.e. ghulam.force9.co.uk. Because sendmail by > default would otherwise use the full name of the local system - > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk. > > So despite me masquerading sendmail still seems to revert to the system > name. > > I've even set that thing in /etc/sendmail.cf (whose name I forget) that > forces sendmail to use the proper domain name - but no luck. > By the way, I've checked my DNS files and they're all OK. > > Whad d'ya reckon cowboys? > > Cheers, > > Ghulam > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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