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Hi there!

PPPPllleease! HELP!

Sendmail doesn't convert my username at home to my mail-account-username of
GMX.

My Domain at home is mydomain.org
My username at home is "me"
My sendmail is configured like this:

        MASQUERADE_AS(`gmx.net')dnl
        MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`mydomain.org')dnl
        FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')dnl
        FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
        dnl FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl

My entry in genericstable is:

I've done:
makemap hash /etc/mail/genericstable < /etc/mail/genericstable
and
m4 /etc/mail/linux.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

Well done.
I can see in the maillog of my ISP that the translation was not correct:

Domain-masquearding was ok but the USERNAME was not!

WHAT SHOULD I DO TO TRANSLATE MY LOCAL USERNAME TO THE CORRECT
MAILUSERNAME???

Oh god! Thank you!!

Claude

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Sendmail doesn't change usernames as dfar as I know. Domain masquerading it
does.
You should perhaps start writing your own sendmail macro (wich is tricky) you
can also just ad your email address correclty in your mail program this is
easier.

Raymond

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Hello Claude!

I am having the same Problem with just about the same setup.
I noticed that translation was correct when I used the standard
"mail" command from prompt but not when I was sending with a
more "proper" mailer like pine.
When I switched off masquerading I found out that pine added


I didn't have the time to tinker around the problem more but

to the genericstable or to the users-file, not sure though.

If you should pursue this matter further and with succes please
notify me, I will do the same once I find the time.

BCNU
 Ruediger

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I switched to Exim. (www.exim.org) It's pretty much a drop-in
for sendmail, but is much easier to configure. It also has
very easy address rewriting capabilities. I have multiple
accounts going out through multiple services, and it all works.

Dale Pontius
DEPontius AT usa DOT net

Hello Claude!

I found some really useful info in the
"Sendmail Adress Rewriting mini-HOWTO" by Thomas Roessler

I had some trouble with it though because my SuSE Box seems to
hide it's sendmail.mc file somewhere out of reach (did a search
through the whole tree for any .mc files but the one "Yast" uses
to create sendmail.cf from was not among it, I even suspect that
this file is created, processed and deleted again every time
"SuSEconfig" is run. I found one rather suitable sendmail.mc among
the files shipped with sendmail and edited it and so far it seems
to work fine.

I added the following to the sendmail.mc:

define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True')dnl
define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS',`e')dnl
FEATURE(`nocanonify')dnl
FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl
FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable.db')dnl
GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericsdomain')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl
MAILER(`local')dnl
MAILER(`procmail')dnl
MAILER(`smtp')dnl

And my /etc/mail/genericsdomain now contains:
xanacorp.com
nightstone.xanacorp.com
genutech.xanacorp.com

(xanacorp.com is my local fictitious domain, nightstone is my main
Linux-box and genutech is a diskless client connected to it via
NFS-root. Haven't checked yet wether mail works from genutech or not)

BCNU
 Ruediger

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You are just masquerading. In order to use genericstable, you need also:
  FEATURE(genericstable)

in your .mc file. Depending on your unknow sendmail version, it should
be something like:
  FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')

You also need to define which domains should pass through the generics
table, so you need also the GENERICS_DOMAIN or GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE
macros. For instance, i'm using:
  GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(confCW_FILE)

That's explained at the cf/README file of sendmail (it's
/usr/lib/sendmail-cf/README on RedHat boxes, but this might change with
your also unknow Linux distribution), and at these pages too:
  http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html
  http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html

questions.

PS. #2: Questions about sendmail should include the sendmail version and
the OS release (Linux distribution) you're using.

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