Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Fremantle
Thanks to everyone who replied, the solution is detailed below Copy /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/generic.m4 -> /etc/mail/custom-domain.m4 softlink /etc/mail/custom-domain.m4 -> /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/custom-domain.m4 Edit /etc/mail/custom-domain.m4 and remove the EXPOSED_USERS('root') l

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 23, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote: Are you aware of any way of doing this stuff in the .mc file? Should the .cf ever be remade, these changes would be blown away Right-- seems to be for the .mc file (from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/ README): There are always users that ne

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote: With all the configurations I've tried, emails are rejected by my smarthost with an error like "sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid; domain does not exist". What I'd like to do is find a way to alter sendmail's perception of my hos

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:19 PM 4/23/2007, Andrew Fremantle wrote: Hello, I've got a machine on the local network, with a local DNS name (which is not a valid name in the global DNS). My problem is that I cannot kludge sendmail into behaving nicely and allow the periodic(8) mailings to get through. The machin