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

[Paul Saab <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

What you are going to want to do is setup your sendmail config to
relay email through tranquility.  A lot of mail servers are denying
relaying and your sendmail is trying to deliver directly and trying
to spoof a hostname.  Just setup sendmail to relay and you should
be fine.

also, have you tried setting 'set hidden_host' in your .muttrc?


Rich Tollerton;; (EMAIL:PROTECTED) wrote:
> 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