I'm trying to make sendmail send ma

[amobasse]

I'm trying to make sendmail send mail without using the fully qualified name in the "from' body. Right now when you send email it comes out as "user@servername.domain.com" What I need is to have sendmail send mail as "user@domain.com".Any ideas what to change in the sendmail.cf file to make this happen.

Thanks
Allen

 

[jwtesch]

Use the masquaraded ruleset

 

[amobasse]

Could you please explain. I am not an expert with sendmail and it's macros. Thanks

 

[bmulvey]

Sendmail is really good and fast, but any documentation I have seen on it is horrible. I have an external relay (MimeSweeper) that I do content and Virus checking with so I shove all sendmail's outbound mail through that, which makes the config a bit simpler. This could also be your ISP's mail relay.
As MimeSweeper does all the anti-spam stuff too, I didn't need to worry about that in sendmail.cf

For your particular problem, you need to change the DM value to be whatever you want to be after the @ in your mail address


we run mail with the following options in order to check every 30 seconds:

startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30s" #change 30s to 5m for 5 minutes, etc.


Assuming domain is "mydomain.com" and hostname is "myhost"....

We only set the following in /etc/sendmail.cf and it works
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#DwYourHostName
#DmYourDomainName
Dwmyhost
Dmmydomain.com
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# my official domain name
Djmydomain.com
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# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
# Relay host to forward outgoing mail not in the local domain to.
DSsmtp:relay.mydomain.com
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# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
DMmydomain.com