SUMMARY: rewriting of address in sendmail

From: Gary Richardson (gpr@proteon.com)
Date: Fri Mar 20 1992 - 19:10:36 CST


Wow!! What a response!! Thank you all for your suggestions with this.
My original message is/was:

>
> I want to have my address rewritten on email being sent out. The way
> it gets sent out is "gpr@roadmap.proteon.com". I want it to be rewritten
> as "gpr@proteon.com". I've looked at /etc/sendmail.cf and read through
> the SunOS sys admin book (and Answerbook) but can't get the grasp
> of the sendmail file.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I need to change in my .cf file to have my
> "From" get rewritten to strip out the "roadmap" part of the address
> and just have it be "gpr@proteon.com"? The way it is now (with the
> "roadmap" in the addr.) mail replied to won't work because of the
> restrictions that our network people have put on our gateway to the
> internet. It'll go off into never-neverland. But I'd like to be able
> to send mail directly out from my machine (which we can do somehow)
> and have it addressed properly so a reply will work. "gpr@proteon.com"
> WILL work. Once I get this figured out for my machine, I can config our
> other WS's so they can do the same.
>
> -Gary
>

The number of responses was truly amazing. I got many repsonses that
will work just fine, but I ended up using the first response I recieved:

From: pbh@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Paul B. Henninger)

gary,

   i replace the original "# format of a total name" entry with:

      Dq$A ($x)$.

   where $A is defined as

      # fully qualified mail address
      DA$f@$m

   and $m is defined as

      # local domain name
      Dmcfsmo.honeywell.com

   thus, the "From:" field is always USER@DOMAIN, or for me
      pbh@cfsmo.honeywell.com
===========

This does exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks also go to the following
people who replied to me:

hewett@cbl.umd.edu (Steve Hewett)
mahesh@numenor.next.nd.edu (Mahesh "BigMan" Subramanya)
atwell@cadre.af.mil (Capt Bart Atwell)
 jgarb@erim.org (Joe Garbarino)
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
bws900@cscgpo.anu.edu.au (Bede W P Seymour)
IJohnston@cmutual.com.au
ohnielse@ltf.dth.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen)
rsr@PRI-MU.Prime.COM (Robert Schreiber)
peterg@jupiter.murphy.com (Peter Gutmann)
zod@ncube.com (Zod Mansour)
alastair@eucad.co.uk (Alastair Young)
Mario Nigrovic <mario@wdc.sps.mot.com>

-Gary



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