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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:37:08 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Duane Winner <dwinner@dwinner.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: urgent sendmail question
Message-ID:  <20070924203659.H31143@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <46F7AED3.4010305@dwinner.net>
References:  <46F7AED3.4010305@dwinner.net>

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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Duane Winner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I know if I poked around enough, I could find the answer, but am up
> against the wall here and need a quick solution. I just discovered a
> major problem with my sendmail configurations.
>
> Just recently started consolidating servers by virtual hosting apache,
> several servers on one box. Problem is that the web app sometimes send
> automated emails to users, and now they're getting bounced back because
> the emails are going out with "@fakename.mydomain.org" instead of
> "@mydomain.org".
>
> Since there is no DNS entry for "fakename.mydomain.org", recipient's
> mail servers are rejecting these emails from my servers.
>
> So I have an apache box, "fakename.mydomain.org", hosting 5 virtual
> hosts with unique domain names that do have public dns records.
>
> I need to all outbound mail appear to be coming from "user@mydomain.org"
> or "user@virtualhostdomainname.org", as long as it can be resolved by
> the remote mail server.
>
> My sendmails are configured to listen on 127.0.0.1 only, since I'm using
> to send, not receive.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> DW
>
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