Hi,
My last post re: an interesting addition I found in my mail headers shortly after installing DNS/NIS. My headers looked like this:
Received by: rocky@borris.com from surgui@bullwinkle.com.bullwinkle.com
Message-Id <3242351@bullwinkle.com.bullwinkle.com>
I assumed that the solution would lie with changing my domainname until I
received a very interesting post From Brett Lymn:
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU Tue Jan 12 20:25:43 1993
According to Scott A Surguine:
>
> For reasons mentioned previously via an earlier posting by Larry Chin,
> I need to alter my domainame from name.org -> .name.org :
>
> In other words I need to placate Sendmail so that the extra
>
> .name.org.name.org does not occur on upon mail replies.
>
> My question is what is the best way to accomplish this without rudely
> interrupting my network traffic.
>
You need to look at your sendmail.cd file, your official hostname
should look like:
Dj$m
not
Dj$w.$m
as I suspect you have at the moment.
-- Brett Lymn | "Smoke me a kipper, I will be Computer Systems Administrator | back for breakfast" AWA Defence Industries | - Arnold "Ace" Rimmer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------In fact this was exactly what I am looking for. The
Dj$w.$m Macro is assigned when you want the gateway to appear INSIDE the domain.
Dj$m is assigned if you want the Gateway to ID ITSELF as the Domain.
In our case my machine is a subsidiary which routes through the Gateway. It is appropriate in our case to use the Dj$m macro.
I am still not quite sure what the w and m macros define here. I do know that
Dj = define my sites official domain name.
Many a Hearty Thanks go out to Brett Lymn and everyone else who responded.
Scott A. Surguine
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