Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 19:02:54 -0500 From: Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> To: "Kevin Kinsey, Minister of Music, CSBC" <kdk@csbc-lamar.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? Message-ID: <3DC9ADAE.2000205@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> References: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> <006e01c285ee$fbc61a90$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>
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Kevin Kinsey, Minister of Music, CSBC wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Kohler" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:20 PM > Subject: sendmail without (real) hostname? > > > > >Is there any way to get outgoing mail working on a system with a > > dynamic > > >IP and no DNS entries? Mail is sent as it is but of course no one > > will > > >relay it. > >All I really want is the ability to use send-pr so I can send > > patches > > >without having them mangled by line-wrapping. > > > >- @ > > > > > I believe I've had success with: > > $hostname someone.elses.fqdn > $send-pr, etc. > $hostname my.original.hostname > > or even: > > $hostname my.isps.mailserver > $send-pr, etc. > $hostname my.original.hostname > > / > > But you could probably make some people > real unhappy that way, and I think sendmail's > gotten past that, or at least some ISP's MTA's > will check... :-) Not to *even* mention any > questions of ethics :-| > > I guess you could: > > $hostname whatever.rev-ptr.says > $send-pr, etc. > $hostname my.original.hostname > > and see what happens?/ Ha, I never thought of that. I guess I'd have to restart sendmail when the hostname changes but it ought to work as long I use the actual reverse pointer name. I'd use that name permanently except that it's something like ipXXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.nv.nv.cox.net where the X's are the current IP, which changes every few hours. To make matters worse, that's actually the NAT router's IP and not this box's. - @ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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