sendmail change sender address

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi,

When you send a mail the normal sender address
is root@servername.company.com

With masquerade I can change it to root@company.com

Is there a way to change to servername@company.com?

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Luk,

You can check this link for usefulness,

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/lfaq.html#CHGADDR

-Arun

[Peter Godron]

Luk,
have a look at this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=963780

[Peter Godron]

Luk,
another way is:
cat file | sendmail -f new_sender recipient

[Christopher Caldwell]

Users marked "Trusted" in sendmail.cf can change their from addresses without security warning by using the appropriate flag in their mailer
e.g.
sendmail -f
mailx -r

By default, root is trusted on HP.

If you've got a great number of addresses that you'd like to coerce automatically, use the generics table
/etc/mail/genericstable
takes name value pairs like
jdoe john.doe@domain.com

It's a dbm style file, so you'll need to build it using makemap.

You'll also need to uncomment the generics rulesets in sendmail.cf (search for generic in sendmail.cf -- the 3 lines are pretty obvious).

#Kgenerics dbm /etc/mail/genericstable
# handle generics database
#R< $+ > $+ < $* > @ $: < $(generics $1 $: $) > $2 < $3 >
#R< > $+ < @ $+ > $: < $(generics $1 $: $) > $1 < @ $2

The m4 technique will work as well, if you're trying to deal cleanly with sendmail.cf configuration management.

[KapilRaj]

sendmail -f kapil@kaps.com

Regds,

Kaps

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You can use /etc/aliases

sender@some.net sender@new.net

/etc/mail/genericstable

root@company.com servicename@company.com

I recommend the genericstable.

SEP