sendmail/mail/Mail

[John Summerfield]

tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> note: for the following I am using made up names for anonymity of the actual names.
> 
> 
> We have a customer, Acme, running Cent Os 4.5 with our software on it. When we encounter a 
> problem we want to send mail to notify people. I am not asking how to do this because
> we already know how. The problem is mail.
> 
> The host name is myhost (I am making up names again remember). When I try to send mail from
> it I eventually get returned mail, "the domain myhost.localdomain" does not exist (or something like
> that). I realize I have to change the hostname to myhost.Acme.COM but I cant' change the hostname
> via neat or in the files because it has other implications (mysql and some other software would be
> affected).
> 
> I tried, without a high expectation, doing something like this:
> 
> HOSTNAME=myhost.Acme.COM
> Mail tonychamberlain at lemko.com
> <etc>
> 
> but the mail still came back because that just changed the HOSTNAME variable in my env, not actually the
> host name. Is there some way I can actually change hostname just for my environment to get mail sent,
> without having to change it for the whole system?
> 
> 
> 
the mail command just calls sendmail, it has no means of setting from.
I think mutt can be coerced, but I've never tried.

If sendmail's idea of the host name is the same as you can see from the 
Internet, then there shouldn't be a problem: Ffor examile

fff.example.com resolves to your client's IP address
sendmail (or other MTA) thinks it's called fff.example.com
then all will be well.

In practice, it doesn't matter what the name is so long as it resolves, 
but it would be a bit rude to pinch IBM's.

In sendmail (and probably other MTA) you can also use address rewriting 
(masquerading). See DM in sendmail.cf




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John

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