Another email related thread

[Ian Prior]

Well Thanks again for the help in the earlier thread I can now type the @ sign.

What I need now is how do I find out what email address the mail will be sent from, more speciically what the part is after the @ as in the example my@server, I need to find out the @server part, as my mail relay is blocking it, and it dosent say what it is on the relay, it just drops it

Thanks again

Ian

[Ivan Ferreira]

Use sendmail -v user@domain. You will see the SMTP transaction.

[Patrick Wallek]

Usually, if you just do 'mailx someone@somewhere.com' from the unix command line, the FROM will default to user@host.domain.com, basically your user-id followed by the fully qualified domain name of your system

This can be changed my modifying the DM macro in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. There you can set the domain to whatever you want.

The syntax is simply:

DMyourdomainhere.com

Then stop and restart sendmail for it to take effect.

[Kent Ostby]

This thread will give you multiple options for masking the server:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=685447