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From: mark@deltam.com (mark galbraith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Help with sendmail.cf
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 10 Oct 89 01:00:07 GMT
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I am afraid I am joining the large club of sysadmins that have trouble
with changes to the sendmail.cf file.  It seems that even the smallest
attempt at customizing sendmail causes MAJOR problems.

We have a small network, connected to uunet by high-speed uucp link.  One
host on the network is designated the mailhost, and all others are
subsidiary machines.

The change I am trying to make (right now at least) is to cause sendmail
not to include the hostname of the subsidiary machines in the Reply-To
line.  In other words, I am trying to hide the internal machine names of
our network.  I have mail aliases to handle getting mail to the right
place, so that is not a problem.  I have tried several times to get this
working, each more disasterous than the one before.  Any help from the
wizards out there would be appreciated.

On a related note, is there a way to cause the return addresses referenced
in the previous paragraph to be formatted in internet format (i.e.,
user@host) rather than uucp format (i.e., host!user).  This would make
things a little easier as our domain is registered with the nic-server.

I'm sure this has been covered before, but I don't know where, and I am
getting nowhere fast trying to use the information in the Sun Manuals.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mark Galbraith				Voice:  415-449-6881
Tech Writer/Programmer/Postmaster	UUCP:   uunet!deltam!mark

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