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Date:      05 Jul 2003 12:14:34 +0000
From:      Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
To:        Thomas Beutler <storugglan@telia.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Need help with a strange mail/domain problem!
Message-ID:  <1057407273.349.145.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <003501c342ec$788eb7c0$9700a8c0@beutler.se>
References:  <003501c342ec$788eb7c0$9700a8c0@beutler.se>

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Hello,
     
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 11:56, Thomas Beutler wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm a total stranger to the Unix world... too long have I dwelled in the
> Windows area, and now I'm searching
> for new horizons and worlds to explore... the Unix world. I looked around
> and found FreeBSD interesting
> enough to install... and here I am with a strange problem:
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 5.0-Release and got the system running. So far - so
> good.
> Second task: Install bind and get the DNS running. So far - so good - at
> least I think so.
> 
> Third task was to get my email work... and now the problems begins.
> 
> I own the domain beutler.se, and my computers name is visthusboden.
> The server accepts incoming mail all right - no problems there... BUT...
> ...whatever I do, all outgoing mail get the address
> user@visthusboden.beutler.se instead of user@beutler.se
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 

Presuming that sendmail is being used, you need to look into configuring
sendmail's masquerade features:

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Stacey

> I've checked and tripple-checked every file in /etc/namedb/ and everything
> looks fine (no missing dots or
> some simple problem like that) and I've really read this through in the
> FreeBSD manual... and still... ???
> 
> I'm at whits end here folks... please help me out!
> 
> Kind Regards
> /Thomas
> 
> 
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-- 
Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

Web: www.vickiandstacey.com





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