Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 23:12:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Self-professed sendmail weenie needs help Message-ID: <199505100612.XAA06323@wsantee.oz.net>
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I thought I had this problem licked, but it looks like I've failed miserably. Earlier today Rod Grimes reported that my return address wasn't tacking on the FQDN for my address when sending mail out. After further inspection, I noticed that this was only happening when my PPP (and therefore DNS) link wasn't up. Taking Rod's advice, I looked in my /etc/hosts file and make sure that my hosts entry listed the FQDN of the host first, i.e.: 204.118.240.207 wsantee.oz.net wsantee I thought that solved the problem, but when I got home from work and did some tests that allowed me to bring the link down, the same thing happened when sending mail. More specifically, the From: header ends up looking like this: From: Wes Santee <wsantee> instead of: From: Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net> Does anybody know if there is an easy way of telling sendmail not to chop off my domain when it can't access the DNS link? If I have to do any sendmail hacking, what ruleset would munge the headers as above so I can fix it? I must admit that this is the weakest link in my UNIX knowledge so any help would be appriciated. Cheers, -Wes
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