With this configuration are you able to modify the "From: " field in the
header to reflect other email addresses you might have, or are you locked
into only the email address of your ISP?

Glen



On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Hyung Kim wrote:

>Thanks for helping me out with this problem.
>
>I've got it working.  This is what I finally did.
>
>I had to configure sendmail to rewrite the envelope
>address using the login for my isp instead of the
>local machine.
>
>I added the following to a file that I ran m4 on:
>FEATURE(genericstable, hash -o
>/etc/mail/genericstable)dnl
>GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(/etc/mail/genericsdomain)dnl
>
>Then I created /etc/mail/genericstable and defined my
>local address and the address for my isp.  I converted
>this file to a hased db.  Finally I created a file
>contining my host name, /etc/mail/genericsdomain.
>
>When I restarted sendmail, everything worked!
>
>--- Hyung Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well here is the answer to my question.  However it
>> does not provide the solution I'm looking for.  It
>> only leads to another question.
>> 
>> With the current configuration of sendmail, the user
>> name used to define the return-path is the user on
>> the
>> local machine.  Therefore if the logins for the isp
>> and local machine are the same, emails that bounce
>> will be returned to a pop server that the user can
>> access.
>> 
>> The only problem for me is that the login I use on
>> the
>> local machine is not available at my isp.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to configure sendmail.cf such
>> that the user is not the current user put a name
>> that
>> is specified?  
>> 
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