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From: mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sender field rewriting for localhosts
Message-ID: <923@ap542.uucp>
Date: 23 Aug 90 14:28:27 GMT
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Organization: Siemens AG, DI AP 542
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Hi!

In our department we're trying to get the following configuration to behave
nicely with sendmail:

localhost1 -- SMTP -----
                         \
localhost2 -- SMTP --  uucp-gateway -- Usenet

   .                      /
   .                     /
   .                    /
                       /
localhostn -- SMTP -- /

The uucp-gateway is officially registered, the localhosts aren't.

Our problem is that our sending address always looks like

	user@localhost(n).uucp

when mail is sent via the gateway.

How can we get the gateway sendmail to produce

	user%localhost(n)@uucp-gateway.uucp

???

It was our impression that this was done by Ruleset 1 (mailer-specific sender
rewriting). But somehow this doesn't work.
If we add a Rule 1 to the one of the localhosts, and have *it* add the 
gateway, it works, but we would prefer having this done by the final
gateway before heading out to the net.

Thanks
M.Hoffmann & T.Oeser


Mike Hoffmann, SIEMENS AG, Dept DI AP 542  | The surest sign of intelligent life
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