Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:31:03 +0000 () From: Carlos Amengual <amengual@sadeya.cesca.es> To: Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it> Cc: piero@strider.ibenet.it, hostmaster@host.bemarnet.es, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with mail reception Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951109163845.2514A-100000@blanco.sadeya.cesca.es> In-Reply-To: <199511091500.QAA27325@strider.ibenet.it>
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(This message is here at the risk of boring everyone; I apologize :) On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Piero Serini wrote: > > more machines under the domain. In fact, it is the preferred procedure at > > many places. My own machine is arranged this way. > > And it will NOT *send* e-mail as antonio@bemarnet.es. Please, > read the question again, and again, and note this part: "I need > to send and receive mail using addresses like antonio@bemarnet.es > ^^^^^^ > instead of antonio@host.bemarnet.es". Look at my "From:" field. It is amengual@sadeya.cesca.es, and not amengual@blanco.sadeya.cesca.es (if it is, I have some relativistic problem here). And look at the From field from Antonio: It is "Antonio Navarro Navarro <hostmaster@bemarnet.es>". > > Many people does not use m4 at all to configure sendmail. Of course, it is > > Wrong! Sendmail is configured that way. I do know tat you tweak > an existant sendmail.cf file, but the *correct* way to do it is > to use the cf/ tree. As I mentioned, it is likely that many people will not have it, and most do not really need it to configure sendmail. If your existing sendmail.cf does things well for you, the temptation to "incrementally" modifying it is high, even if you have the m4 files at hand. > > generally perfectly adequate to use the MASQUERADE_AS macro, but it likely > > does no more than putting a DM symbol definition in the .cf file. This is > > Wrong!!!!! Many rewriting rules change if you masquerade!!!! I will look at the macro definition (sorry, that's the developer approach), though it seems unlikely that the file produced will be so different from the initial one. > Configure a sendmail in the right way, i.e. use m4 and then use > diff to see it yourself. I do have sendmail configured the "right" way: the way I need to do less changes and I feel more safe with. > Wrong! Any customization can be done in the .mc file, and this > is the right way to do it. > > > Your method is only one approach, not the only one as you imply. > > Wrong! Using m4 is the only *correct* approach. I have never seen, in any book, that only m4 is correct. Every people I know deals directly with the sendmail.cf file. The real point is if you are reasonably confident of what you are doing and, finally, if things work after all. It is not so hard to add rules and mailers by hand in the raw file. As this is falling to "style matters", I suggest that any response should be left out of the poor bored people in the mailing list, if you agree, now that Antonio's problem is (unsurprisingly, ignoring us) solved (by the way I suggested :) Cheers, Carlos
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