Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:52:27 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps ax/sendail Message-ID: <20000608095227.A6756@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006080003460.20321-100000@mail.telestream.com>; from "keith@mail.telestream.com" on Thu Jun 8 00:06:46 GMT 2000 References: <20000607231912.A5191@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006080003460.20321-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 08), keith@mail.telestream.com said: > Why would sendmail want to use auth to determine a user name for > someone that is not local to our networks and has no user name? Or am > I missing the point of what you are saying? It's for tracking purposes. Take a look at the headers on your email, for example: Received: from gatekeeper.emsphone.com (root@gatekeeper.emsphone.com [199.67.51.100]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA22753 for <dan@dan.emsphone.com>; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 02:06:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from mail.telestream.com (IDENT:keith@mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by gatekeeper.emsphone.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5876m716191 for <dnelson@emsphone.com>; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 02:06:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20376; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:06:46 -0700 The bottom line is mail.telestream.com logging the fact that a "keith@localhost" submitted an email message. The next line is my mail gateway (gatekeeper.emsphone.com) logging the fact that a "keith@mail.telestream.com" submitted an email message (the sendmail process was most likely executed directly by your mailer; that's why it's still got an id of keith instead of root). The top line is my machine (dan.emsphone.com) logging the fact that a "root@gatekeeper.emsphone.com" submitted an email message. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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