how2 tweaking sendmail.mc for rewriting the To: field (recipient) with expanded aliases

ben benjaleung at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 09:14:58 UTC 2009


 hi all,

what needs to be changed in my  sendmail.mc
to get the  To: field in my envelope to be
the fully expanded addresses of my aliases file.

for eg. if i    mail alldrivers < notices

and my /etc/aliases file has

 alldrivers: aa at x.y.z, bb at a.b.c

then I want to have

  To: aa at x.y.z, bb at a.b.c

in my mail

but currently i am only getting

  To: alldrivers at myhostname



I am running sendmail 8.13.8 on rhel5

my  sendmail.mc  has
divert(-1)dnl
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
VERSIONID(`setup for linux')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.myhostname.zz.net')dnl
define(`confDEF_USER_ID', ``8:12'')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST', `True')dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/mail/statistics')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl
FEATURE(`no_default_msa', `dnl')dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh', `/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(`mailertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl                           <<<< no difference
with both ways
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail, `', `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`myhostname.zz.net')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl


any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks
Ben



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