Sendmail- Is this correct.?
Joel
rees at ddcom.co.jp
Tue Apr 12 05:20:11 UTC 2005
> [...]
> Paul, I have read this section at the tutorial site,
>
> You can have your host masquerade as another by using this macro:
>
> MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain')
>
> Masquerading is a very important part of a client/server mail hub
> configuration. Any machine configured like this will rewrite the SMTP
> From: header of all outbound mail to look like the message came from the
> address you're masquerading as. This address /must/ be an address record
> in DNS, not simply a CNAME, or the remote end will canonicalize the
> address back to the original name.
>
> and was wondering, as it's a requirement to have the address in a DNS
> record, does this have to be a registered domain name, as we don't have
> 1.
It works better that way.
Have you considered dynamic DNS?
> If no, then I can just masquerade as anyone(not that I really want
> to)..?
Well, it's usually best to masquerade as yourself.
> Our router is our DNS, so we would have to add this record to it,
> yes..?
Not necessarily.
What brand/model router is it?
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Joel Rees <rees at ddcom.co.jp>
digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム
Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800
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