Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:25:22 GMT From: Abc Xyz <abc@anchorageinternet.org> To: "freebsd-questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: maillist host lookups Message-ID: <200209071025.g87APMHU052229@anchorageinternet.org>
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this is a problem plaguing me for years - 3 or so. i am on a network with a private IP - an ethernet with a freebsd gateway using ppp -ddial -nat. it is important that the private IP MTA be used so mail logs stay on the corresponding machines from which they are sent. for years, i could never mail FBSD maillists, since they choose to create hardship for anyone with a private IP in order to block spammers using private IP's, an argument which i do not buy, but i digress. i thought i found a solution by editing sendmail.cf as follows: DjMYGATEWAYSHOSTNAME.ORG this did work for mailing a FBSD maillist, forcing sendmail to provide the gateway as the origin of the mail, but then i realized that it crashed internal network mail. for example, with such a sendmail.cf, if i am on a machine with a private IP behind the gateway, and i mail user@MYGATEWAYSHOSTNAME.ORG, sendmail looks for "user" on my own machine, instead of the gateway. i am sure i am not the only one with this problem, ie, using sendmail from a machine on a private IP network behind a gateway. i think it's reasonable to imagine that most users using FBSD as a gateway have such a setup, at home or at work. what is the proper solution to this problem? i have attempted to find out over the years, but have never recieved a simple and direct solution/answer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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