Re: sending mail out (only)

[Tamas TEVESZ <ice@extreme.hu>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, William L Anderson wrote:

 > However, I'm having trouble configuring either sendmail or exim to
 > produce a legal outgoing address; it always produces
 >   root@sigmund.localdomain
 >
 > I'd like to force this to be my real ISP email address.

with exim, you could either go by setting qualify_domain to the domain
you want to use, then send the messages with sender being unqualified;
exim will qualify it to what you've specified there (also read up on
sender_unqalified_hosts and basically on all the *qualif* options as
well!)

alternatively (for some reason, i like this one more), you could use
address rewriting, probably something like

	*@sigmund.localdomain	$1@isp.dom.ain	bcfrF

or even

	*@*			$1@isp.dom.ain	bcfrF

(untested and off the top of my head).

chapter 34 of the exim specification (v3; v4 should be around there as
well) deals with address rewriting extensively.

while i fully agree with Ben that hosed dns should be fixed first and
foremost, exim (i'm sure sendmail too, i just don't quite know how
anymore) can be used to circumvent the problem (in parts, at least).


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