[CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use "example.com" instead of hostname?

Hi List, I have a dumb sendmail question, and I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction (besides "sendmail list is two doors down on the left" ;-). One of our clients has a bunch of servers -- CentOS 5 -- that are on only a private network that's NATted to the outside w

Re: [CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use "example.com" instead of hostname?

Thanks, Brent -- I tried this, but still no dice. I didn't copy all of your directives, since there's no relay involved in our case, but I did make sure that the following 3 were enabled... FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')dnl FEATURE(`m

Re: [CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use "example.com" instead of hostname?

Since you are using NAT, the important IP address and host name associated with it is the one the outside world sees. Does that IP address have a host name the world sees and does that name then resolve to the same IP address? Yup -- that's what I'm trying to get sendmail to use, b

Re: [CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use "example.com" instead of hostname? SOLVED

Are you talking about what appears on the "from" header line. If so, these instuctions: http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#sendmail explain how Ah. One needs to comment out the "EXPOSED_USER" variable -- i.e., make it look like: dnl # EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl Th