SUMMARY: sendmail - help needed

From: Brett Lymn - System Admin (blymn@awadi.com.AU)
Date: Fri Jul 10 1992 - 15:46:21 CDT


Firstly profuse thanks to all the people that responded to my plea for
help, I have located the problem and sendmail now seems to be doing
what I wanted it to do.

My first problem is that on my server I did not have the correct file.
I had a "client" sendmail.cf instead of the server one - I did not
realise this until I was prompted to wonder why I was getting my
server name NOT the mail gateway which is a totally different machine.
On my mail gateway I have

Dj$m

Dmawadi.com.au

And on my server I have

Dj$w.$m

Dmawadi.com.au
Cm baobab.awadi.com.au

Now if I send a message internally I get blymn@baobab as a return
path, sending a message externally gives a return path of
blymn@awadi.com.au which is what I want.

A lot of people also recommended using IDA sendmail to do the envelope
rewriting, from what I have heard the IDA sendmail is very good but
you have to understand m4 (the macro processor) to configure it -
which may have got me deeper into the merde ('scuse the French) since
my knowledge of m4 can be best termed as rudimentary.

Thanks to for their suggestions and/or offers of help:

mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au
fetrow@biostat.washington.edu
bhunter@intelect.com
salomone@FICUS.CS.UCLA.EDU
danny@ews7.dseg.ti.com
dal@gcm.com
sysadmin@toshiba.tic.oz.AU
voder!nsc!taux01.nsc.com!celita@uunet.uu.net
hlr@lems.Brown.EDU
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM
tpm@tpm-sprl.anat.UMSMED.EDU
swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
zshouben@PCS.CNU.EDU
kratky@electra.boeing.com
odt@dcs.bellcore.com
rickert@cs.niu.edu
julian@syd.dwt.CSIRO.AU
eckhard@ikarus.ts.go.dlr.de
birger@vest.sdata.no
craigb@ips.oz.au
shah@cs.arizona.edu
tgsmith@spdev.East.Sun.COM



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