Re: [UUG/MLUG] Hacking sendmail for home system over dial-up

["Rich Tollerton;;" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Paul Saab wrote:

> set your DM macro or use MASQUERADE_AS m4 macro in your macro file.
> 
> # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
> DMtranquility.net

Tried that.. works good on localhost and tranquility mail, but showme
won't accept accept it. It reports a "data format error", but in reality
it's still trying to look up the nonexistent hostname. I can attach the
exact error mail message to the list or provately if anybody wants, it's
40-ish lines long.

>From what I can tell the MUA (mutt) isn't making any references to tres
(no sign of that hostname in a postponed message ready to send), and
fetchmail routes its downloaded mail through sendmail so it's pretty tough
to look at the raw mail headers in my spoolfile to see how tres is being
referenced there. However, sendmail still reports its hostname as
tres.tranquility.net after I use the masquerade name (confirmed by
telnetting to port 25), so I guess it's not masquerading enough...

BTW, sendmail 8.8.7, although I just upgraded to 8.9.1 and still have the
same problems. I'll try to work on it a bit more, though I suppose I won't
be holding out for long at this time of night :)

> 
> paul

-- Rich