topic Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail Masquerading Problem

yc_2 — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:38:44 GMT

Hi,

Mail send out from unix box, the From field is @.

To get rid off the part, I modified sendmail.cf in HP-UX with the following:
:
DM
:
Then I restart sendmail.

The recipient mail of the From field stated as @. This is what I expected.

In the HP-UX server, the system stating the folloiwng using sendmail -v command:
:
>>> MAIL From:@.
:

Why is it so? It is still sending out the mail with the part.

How to get rid off the part from the HP-UX server when the mail is sent out? It is important because the bounce back mail seems using the @. which the HP-UX server is not configured to recv mail.

Thanks in advance,
YC

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Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05:49:17 GMT

Hi,

have you tried
sendmail -F
to change the return address to a machine, that can accept mail?

greetings,

Michael

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

Donny Jekels — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:02:23 GMT

YC,

DM does not work for root. only for regular users.

I am using it as you explained, and don't get the hostname in the smtp addy.

how did you setup

Dj

peace
Donny

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:48:51 GMT

Hi,

DM should have worked. Do you have a non-default CE macro setup?. Masquerading will not be done for the users specified under CE macro.

-Sri

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

Ernie Burns — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:10:58 GMT

A while back I had opened a ticket with HP concerning this same issue and was given the following:

sendmail.cf
DM # Add domain name
Uncomment line starting with S94
Uncomment line starting with R$+
Comment out line CE root #To masquerade root id.

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:39:10 GMT

you might want to try the sendmail.mc equivalent for HP-UX.

I hate missing with sendmail.cf, I almost always use macros' which makes it easier to regenerate the sendmail.cf from a file that has a readable format.

Let me know if you want to go this way.

SEP

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:46:07 GMT

last post

missing should have been messing

Let me attach a script that shows how easy sendmail macro programming is with hp-ux.

SEP

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

yc_2 — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:38:56 GMT

Thanks everyone.

By copying a working sendmail.cf file from another host, it seems working now.

I will compare the different of both sendmail.cf file to find out the different.

BTW, is there a easy understand book for sendmail that will solve commonly configuration issues?

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Problem

Geoff Wild — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:45:09 GMT

is there a easy understand book for sendmail that will solve commonly configuration issues?

Don't think it's "easy" but the best book to have is:

sendmail by O'reilly & Associates

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail3/index.html

There's also a cookbook:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmailckbk/index.html

Rgds...Geoff