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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:31:41 -0600
From:      Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail domain re-writting
Message-ID:  <20010601073140.A82381@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20010531220932.M1126-100000@hades.hell.gr>; from "Giorgos Keramidas" on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:40:16AM
References:  <20010531095722.A13118@polands.org> <20010531220932.M1126-100000@hades.hell.gr>

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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:40:16AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Doug Poland wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for *yet another sendmail* question.  This should be
> > a simple solution..
> >
> > I want sendmail on my 4.3-STABLE box to strip off the hostname
> > part of my email address.  For example:
> >
> > 	doug@mybox.mydomain.com
> >
> > becomes
> >
> > 	doug@mydomain.com
> >
> > Given a stock sendmail.cf, how does one accomplish this?
> 
> Yes, you can use FEATURE(genericstable) to do that.
> In my master-config file I have:
> 
>     FEATURE(`genericstable', `btree -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
>     GENERICS_DOMAIN(`hell.gr')dnl
>     FEATURE(`generics_entire_domain')dnl
> 
> Generated my sendmail.cf again and copied it to /etc/mail.
> Then, I added in my /etc/mail/genericstable file:
> 
>     charon@hades.hell.gr                keramidi@otenet.gr
> 
> Make the genericstable map the usual way:
> 
>     # cd /etc/mail
>     # makemap btree genericstable < genericstable
> 
> And all is set to go.  What mail I sent from <charon@hades.hell.gr> will be
> rewritten to look as if it came from <keramidi@otenet.gr>.
> 
Hi giorgos....

Could you explain the difference between using 'genericstable' and the
'masquerade' feature. I suppose my confusion is semantical, as the above
_seems_ to be a 'masquerade' as well. ;) TIA...
-- 
-duke
Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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