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Date:      Sun, 4 Aug 1996 15:02:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        tcg@ime.net, frankd@yoda.fdt.net, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mail
Message-ID:  <199608042202.PAA26873@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199608042055.WAA14874@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Aug 4, 96 10:55:56 pm

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Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> Gary Chrysler wrote:
> > > It will prompt you for your password, query the mail server and drop all
> > > your mail in your system mail folder. You can also run it from cron but
> > > you must use -p <password> which will show up in a ps listing. You might
> > > not want to do this for security reasons. I do it on my home machine so I
> > > don't have to worry about someone seeing my password. Hope this helps.
> > > 
> > 
> > How does outgoing mail get addressed, I tried this (not very hard)
> > and my outgoing mail gave my address from my internal net, I need
> > it to match my account with my ISP, As if I had sent it from my ISP.
> 
> The easiest way is to cheat with your mailer (PINE/ELM/MH/Whatever),
> and just set your from address there.
> 
> Harder work would be to convice sendmail to do it for you. Look at
> the M4 macros in its source directort for some clues.

	the "harder way" (??) is to set "DMdomain.my.mail.comes.from"
	in /etc/sendmail.cf on each machine that sends mail

	its the masquerade option that i s described in the bat book
	(oreilly senmdail) p. 747

jmb
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