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Re: [Fwd: Sendmail virtual domain trivia]



On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, David H. Gay wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:51:11 -0600
> From: David H. Gay <dgay@program-works.com>
> To: Debian ISP list <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: [Fwd: Sendmail virtual domain trivia]
> Resent-Date: 16 Nov 1999 23:17:19 -0000
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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.)

don't go there ...

> > 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.

So they use you as a POP provider, and as `smart host`, relaying upstream
mail through you?

> > For example the header of this message will have dgay@progworks.net
> > instead of dgay@program-works.com.

see above, the return was 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.

You should peek at using MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE and list therein the domains
you wish to be masqueraded
-- 
Rick Nelson
C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL


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