host masquerading in postifx?

[InigoMontoya]

Hello All,

I tried asking this in the postfix forum but I'm just not getting any answer. I'm hoping I have better luck here ...

I have a linux workstation that when I send mail from it it shows the hostname.domain.com in the From line. I want it to behave as other workstations (sendmail) where the 'hostname' portion is masqueraded with the 'mailserver'. The From: line then has mailserver.domain.com?
In sendmail I set the parameter with MASQUERADE_AS line. I was able to have the same effect in postfix by changing the 'myhostname' parameter in the main.cf line to myhostname = mailserver.domain.com instead of hostname.domain.com. But I'm not sure if this is the correct way of doing it.
Is what I did wrong? Is there a correct or better way to perform the masquerading? Thanks.
BTW...there is a masquerade_domains parameter in the main.cf file but it doesn't hide the hostname. There is no masquerade_hostname that I see but it would make sense if there is one. Anyway...thanks for any help!

 

[QatQat]

Hi there,

address masquerading is disabled by default in postfix but you can enable it in main.cf

here is some literature

http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html

Cheers

QatQat

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