Using aliases

[josel]

Howdy y'all!

I have spent a great deal of time going back and forth
with setting aliases in my SCO UNIX 5.0.6a server. I
have created my aliases file and entered all users in
it - The form of username: First.Lastname@domain.com

I then ran 'newaliases' and 'sendmail -bi'.

I am intending to have user josel, whom is set in
my aliases file as josel: Jose.Lerebours@domain.com
to appear as the sender on all messages sent out of
our application. Instead, sender appears as josel@domain.com

What am I missing? Why is this not working? I even
hashed my genericstable and created genericstable.db and
still cannot get it to do what I want.

Please help!

Thanks;


Jose Lerebours



KNOWLEDGE: Something you can give away endlessly and gain more of it in the process! - Jose Lerebours

 

[datadan]

I don't think it works this way.

My understanding of the alias file + sendmail is:

When sendmail receives a mail for whomever@wherever it looks at the /etc/alias file.

if an entry for whomever exists (whomever: joe,frank@differentdomain), it will forward that incoming mail to joe@whereever and to frank@differentdomain.

If you want to affect the outgoing message I think you need to look at masquerading, but I could be wrong.

Cheers

 

[josel]

OK!

So, how does this masquerading work? Can it be that I described masquedating and referred to it as aliasing?

I copied my /usr/lib/aliases file /etc/alias ... Lets see what happens. To foward, I use /usr/username/.forward, it works. I can even set a dist list this way (lazy but functional).

Any body, please, throw me a bone!!!!

Thanks;


Jose Lerebours


KNOWLEDGE: Something you can give away endlessly and gain more of it in the process! - Jose Lerebours