[plug] Sendmail ill refrase that

raven ian.kent at pobox.com
Wed Jun 14 20:25:05 WST 2000


James Robert New wrote:

> I just want outward mail to queue for a while till I make a manual ppp
> connection this will give other people a chance to write email without
> connecting to the net
>
> I have fetchmail in ip-up.local and expect to do the same with
> sendmail (/usr/bin/sendmail -q)

This will bring up a demand dial link. Maybe that's what you want.

>
>
> I am not sure about the masqueraing lines (see below)
> because  i have people with different email domains
> ie.. user at yahoo.com, user at geocities.com, user at iprimus.really.sux,
> user at deakin.edu.au
> So I am hung up on the MASQUERADE_AS  line
> I think that all mail will go out as <from: user at smallorg.org>
> If true this would make return mail impossible.
> TIA
> James

Maybe that's not what you want. The job of the MASQUERADE_AS line will remove
the host part of a FQDN in the domain specified.

You should look into virtual hosting at sendmail.org. I have no need to do that
so I am not clued on it.

>
> MAILER('smtp')dnl
> MAILER('procmail')dnl

I think the MAILERs come last?

Ian K







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