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Sendmail from address question

joe_91 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:49:11 GMT

I have two servers (both are mail client). on server A when i send the email, the response back is from "username@domainname.company.com (like in joe@vcs.abc.com) on server B the response is from "username@servername.domainname.company.com (like joe@crusader.vcs.abc.com). We want the email like in serverB which includes the server address. Where should the change be made on serverA so that it is same as serverB?

Thanks

Joe

Re: Sendmail from address question

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:05:12 GMT

Shalom,

I generally handle this with a script.

The attached script does what you want, and a few other things like sending an attachment.

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=7

SEP

Re: Sendmail from address question

joe_91 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:15:28 GMT

Steven

Thanks..is there a way i can change the sendmail.cf to acheive the desired result?

Thanks

Joe

Re: Sendmail from address question

Dennis Handly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:30:04 GMT

>We want the email like in serverB which includes the server address. Where should the change be made on serverA so that it is same as serverB?

This is exactly backwards than the way I want things. I.e. I don't want anyone to know about servers but have all mail sent to a central domain site.

But the way I achieve A is to set the DM macro in serverA. So you need to comment that macro out and then restart sendmail.

Re: Sendmail from address question

TTr — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:30:29 GMT

Checkout the "DM" setting in sendmail.cf on serverB and remove any settings that have been added there. That is the "DM" should be all by itself on the begining of the line.
Compare it with serverA if you like to verify.

Re: Sendmail from address question

TTr — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:36:23 GMT

It should be for serverA.

Also I agree with Dennis on hiding the servername specially if the email message goes outside the company. However if the message stays within your company you probably want to know which server the mail comes from for a specific user, such as oracle. You can also leave the DM setting alone and utilize the CE class to exclude users from the DM rule by adding them in the CE class. The root account is in the CE class by default.