Re: tlug: cheating sendmail

[Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji@example.com>]

How about using newaliases and /etc/alias?  Emails to kov@example.com are sent to 
dk@example.com    See man pages of newaliases (not newalias) and sendmail.

> 
> Well... everybody is writing exclusively on anti-spam subject. Are
> technical questions still OK?  ;)
> 
> Reading some old mails...
> 
> >>>>> "Tetsuji" == Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji@example.com> writes:
> 
>     >> > I am trying to cheat sendmail and need hints.  What I want to
>     >> do is that > the From field of email becomes
>     >> "tetsuji@example.com" even the email is > sent by usual
>     >> mail or mh.  Now I cheat by setting hostname to >
>     >> MailAndNews.com, but it causes problems in samba.  My computer
>     >> is connected to > internet via ppp, so the real site name is
>     >> not determined when it is not > connected to Internet.  Any
>     >> hints?
>     >> 
>     >> In the sendmail sources, the relevant doc you need is
>     >> cf/README.  Search for "envelope"; what you want to do is spoof
>     >> the envelope on mail coming out of your sendmail daemon.  The
>     >> function in the m4 configuration macros is
>     >> MASQUERADE_ENVELOPE() or something like that.
> 
> I have a slightly different question. I have login 'dk' at home
> and my mail at ISP is kov@example.com 
> 
> What I can do is masquerade my mailhub, that it will present itself as
> 'tokyo.email.ne.jp', but then all mails from me at that host would be
> From: dk@example.com, not kov@example.com
> 
> Is there any way to masquerade user login name, that all mails
> (outside) will translate dk@example.com -> kov@example.com (let's suppose I don't want
> to create separate account for this). 
> 

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