Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!orca.dsd.es.com!javelin.es.com!pashdown From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Changing user@address to user%address@gateway Message-ID: <1990Dec18.170919.20085@javelin.es.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 17:09:19 GMT References: <1990Dec17.184212.484@javelin.es.com> <1990Dec17.200550.15682@mp.cs.niu.edu> Reply-To: pashdown%javelin@dsd.es.com Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah Lines: 27 rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >In article <1990Dec17.184212.484@javelin.es.com> pashdown%javelin@dsd.es.com writes: >> >>Because of security reasons, our internet machine is not friendly with the >>rest of the machines in the company. Thus mail addresses need to be hacked >>from user@address to user%address@gateway. Note my "Reply-To" address for >>specifics. What I want to do is change the sendmail.cf to modify all outgoing > No they don't. According to my nameserver, I can send mail to >'pashdown@javelin.es.com'. My mailer will transfer the message to host >'orca.es.com' which is on Internet. I presume that orca.es.com is also ^^^^^^^ >on your internal network, and capable of forwarding the mail to javelin. That's where you are wrong. 'orca' is not capable of finding 'javelin' at all. However, 'orca' is capable of finding 'dsd' which is capable of finding 'javelin'. I know the obvious answer is to _fix 'orca'_, but unfortunately, I have no control over that. > Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science -- "While you are here, your wives and girlfriends are dating handsome American movie and TV stars. Stars like Tom Selleck, Bruce Willis, and Bart Simpson." -- Baghdad Betty Pete Ashdown pashdown%javelin@dsd.es.com ...dsd.es.com!javelin!pashdown