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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: From: , relaying and FAQ
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.203000.20858@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 20:30:00 GMT
References: <227@sos.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <227@sos.com> osvaldo@sos.com (Osvaldo Gold) writes:
>I'm still struggling with sendmail.cf, though.  I have two problems:
>
>1.  My From: lines look awful.  I'd like them to have my domain name.
>   Something like osvaldo@silver.sansoft.com (Osvaldo Gold).
>   What is it that I can do to have this?

 The difficulty here is that you need the uucp style from addresses on the
envelope (the unix 'From ' line at the top), and conventional versions of
sendmail will rewrite the address in the 'From:' header the same way as
it rewrites the address on the envelope.  Your best bet might be to pick up
the IDA versions of sendmail which support different rewriting strategies for
header and envelope.  You might just find it will generate (with m4) a
configuration file which meets your needs.

>And another question:  what is the ruleset sequence that is called for any
>address?  I see rules in my sendmail.cf that nobody calls explicitly.  By

 I will try to write up and post a reasonably complete description.  If you
wish to repost it from time to time as part of a FAQ, that is your choice.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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