[plug] Sendmail ill refrase that

[Colin Muller]

raven wrote:
> 
> James Robert New wrote:
[snip]
> > 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>
[snip]
> 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.

Yes, you shouldn't need the MASQUERADE_AS line at all. Let the users'
mail programs set the "From: " lines. Sendmail will probably set a
"Sender:' line using its canonical hostname and the username, but that
shouldn't cause problems.

> You should look into virtual hosting at sendmail.org.

Good advice. The relevant document there is a bit dense to work through
the first time you do it, but it does actually spell everything out in
logical steps. This should be the one you need:

http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html

Masquerading, which you don't need, is covered here:
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html

And some reasons you don't need it are covered here:
http://www.connactivity.com/~esj/sendmail/masquerade.html

Colin