Sendmail Multiple Domains

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We're running Sendmail on a machine hosting 3 domains. We're trying to configure Sendmail to supply the appropriate header info when users associated with these different domains send mail -- that is, user "joe" is associated with imageshop.com. When joe sends a message, the headers should show it is from joe@imageshop.com, not from joe@realservername.com. We'd also like to be able to strip the domain name off the "From:" line, so that it would read "The Image Shop," not "The Image Shop@realservername.com."

The Sendmail virtual-users.html page is useless -- it contains incomplete sentences and refers to files that don't exist in our version (8.11). We've tried to follow it as best we can (setting up genericstable, etc.), but Sendmail ignores that info.

Anyone know of a complete, coherent FAQ for setting up Sendmail for multiple domains?

Thanks for any help!

--Gary

 

[gohard]

Are you configuring it as a mailserver that is being popped by a mail client, or are your users working on Unix/Linux Terminals?

 

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Both, but usually popped. We need outgoing mail headers to reflect the domain info of the user sending the mail. Some outgoing mail is sent via the Pine client, some is generated by a Perl script executed by particular users. In either case, we need the headers to reflect that user's domain info. As it is, all the headers show "user@realservername.com" instead of the user's correct domain name, despite the presence of a generics table.

It almost looks like you need different sendmail.cf files for each domain using Sendmail, with a command line directive to the appropriate file. There's gotta be a more sensible way to do it than that.

Thx!