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"David H. Gay" wrote:
> 
> The answers have been helpful, but not addressed the real problem we
> are trying to solve.
> 
> We have 1 mail host. So setting up a relay for each domain is not
> possible.
> It would be nice but we would run out of IP addresses (unless we can set
> up sendmail to work on several ports.)
> 
> We have ISP-DOMAIN.NET and host COMPANY-X.COM, COMPANY-Y.COM etc.
> 
> Our customers should be able to send email with their domain name as the
> email address. For example JOE@COMPANY-X.COM instead of it going out as
> JOE@ISP-DOMAIN.NET. They should just set their email address in their
> POP/SMTP mail program.
> 
> For example the header of this message will have dgay@progworks.net
> instead of dgay@program-works.com.
> 
> One suggestion dropping the Masquerading, we have tried with no success.
> We might try it again. I personally had problems with fetchmail and
> domainless email.
> 
> Thanks again...
> 
> "Andrei D. Caraman" wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 04:00:00PM -0600, David H. Gay wrote:
> > > Today's Debian ISP sendmail question is:
> > >
> > > How do we keep Sendmail 8.9.3 from overwriting the email address for the
> > > virtual domains we are hosting?
> > >
> > > All the email goes out with the ISP domain name instead of the domain
> > > name of their domain.  We have set up the virtual hosts table and the
> > > inverse virtual host table only works on email sent from the machine
> > > itself not email relayed.
> >
> > If you have the pretty usual setup with (dialup?) users using SMTP/POP3, you
> > can just have them use user@hosted-domain.com addresses (assuming the mail
> > relay is host.domain.com)
> 
> --
> David H. Gay
> dgay@program-works.com
> The Program Works Software, Inc.
> 
> *** Some software money can't buy. For everything else there is
> Micros~1.

--
David H. Gay
dgay@program-works.com
The Program Works Software, Inc.

*** Some software money can't buy. For everything else there is
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