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From: dan@asihub.AUTOSYS.COM (Dan O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: domain in From line (cont...)
Keywords: From header, smail, domain
Message-ID: <206@asihub.AUTOSYS.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 89 21:54:43 GMT
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Organization: Automated Systems Inc.
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To bring things up to date, I was trying to have my domain name tacked
on to the end of the Unix "From " line in outgoing mail messages.  It
now appears that I didn't understand a couple of things.

Messages leaving our site have a line like:

    From dan  Thu Dec 14 13:36:22 1989 remote from asitor

When they are delivered, the From line get changed to:

    From asitor!dan  Thu Dec 14 13:40:14 1989

What I really wanted to do was have the outgoing line look like:

    From dan  Thu Dec 14 13:36:22 1989 remote from asitor.AUTOSYS.COM

and on the receipt end

    From asitor.AUTOSYS.COM!dan  Thu Dec 14 13:40:14 1989


To do this I was looking into the sendmail.cf and smail (v2.5).  It
appears that the solution is within smail, but I would like to run it
by the people on the net for comments.

In the file defs.h, change the RFROM macro.

Original:

#define RFROM(frm,now,host) \
              "From %s  %.24s remote from %s\n",frm,now,host

Suggested improvement:

#define RFROM(frm,now,host) \
              "From %s  %.24s remote from %s%s\n",frm,now,host,MYDOM


This will accomplish what I am seeking, however, I do not have the
experience to say "Yes, this is the correct solution".

Comments will be appreciated.  Thanks.


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Dan O'Neill	dan@asihub.AUTOSYS.COM    {uunet|ncr-sd}!asihub!dan
Automated Systems, Inc.  San Diego R&D