On 02/16/2010 08:21 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
>> I'm not talking about IP addresses, I mean email addresses. Presume
>> that I am t...@localhost on my machine, and I masquerade my mail to
>> change localhost to the domain name of my ISP (e.g. example.com), and I
>> (now) send out m
Tim wrote:
> I'm not talking about IP addresses, I mean email addresses. Presume
> that I am t...@localhost on my machine, and I masquerade my mail to
> change localhost to the domain name of my ISP (e.g. example.com), and I
> (now) send out my mail as t...@example.com, to save me from configurin
Tim:
>> One problem with such simple masquerading is when you send out a mail
>> using a local LAN address, it fakes your local domain to be the ISP's
>> domain, and that constructed address happens to be the same address as
>> someone else on your ISP.
Gene:
> That is -not- correct. The outside
On 02/15/2010 12:11 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 15:40 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Should I set MASQUERADE_AS and/or MASQUERADE_DOMAIN
>> on laptop and/or desktop?
It is not necessary tho its not a bad idea. Your sendmail is merely
acting as a client to your ISP's sendmail - so as
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 15:40 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Should I set MASQUERADE_AS and/or MASQUERADE_DOMAIN
> on laptop and/or desktop?
Only if you need to, or want to, rewrite addresses to fake them as being
those addresses, when the originally were not. My mail set up is quite
similar to yo
I'm puzzled by MASQUERADE_AS and MASQUERADE_DOMAIN in sendmail.mc .
I'm using KMail (under Fedora-12) on my laptop to send and receive email.
I send my email through my ISP, as defined by
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.eircom.net')dnl
in /etc/sendmail.mc on the laptop.
I collect my email on my deskt
