sendmail userdb doesn't work
Hello,
I use sendmail's User Database and can't get sendmailconfig to
generate a sendmail.cf file that works correctly (translates my
outgoing mail headers to look like they are coming from a
reachable email address).
Has anyone got this working using sendmail 8.9? If so, how?
What do you put in your sendmail.mc file?
I have an old sendmail.cf file that provides working translation
(but waht am I missing out on by using it?). It contains:
O UserDatabaseSpec=/etc/mail/users.db
where /etc/mail/users.db is created using:
# makemap btree /etc/mail/users.db < /etc/mail/userdb
on a file /etc/mail/userdb that looks like:
-cut-
rhogee:mailname GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca:maildrop rhogee
-cut-
The new sendmail.cf generated by sendmailconfig also has the
"O UserDatabaseSpec=/etc/mail/users.db" line, has other diff's
which appear to break userdb behaviour.
A test messsage received using my old sendmail.cf file looks
like:
From GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Tue Aug 3 15:59:10 1999
Received: from mixing.qc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca ([207.216.183.21]:8290 "EHLO mixing.qc.dfo.ca" ident: "TIMEDOUT") by skye.phys.ocean.dal.ca with ESMTP id <17158-16979>; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:58:56 -0300
Received: from mixing.qc.dfo.ca (rhogee@localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mixing.qc.dfo.ca (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02126
for <rhogee@phys.ocean.dal.ca>; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:58:50 -0400
Message-Id: <199908031858.OAA02126@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
To: rhogee@phys.ocean.dal.ca
Subject: test with old config
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 14:58:50 -0400
From: Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Return-Path: <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
X-Orcpt: rfc822;rhogee@phys.ocean.dal.ca
Using the new (broken) sendmail.cf yields:
From rhogee@mixing.qc.dfo.ca Tue Aug 3 15:58:10 1999
Received: from mixing.qc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca ([207.216.183.21]:8284 "EHLO mixing.qc.dfo.ca" ident: "TIMEDOUT") by skye.phys.ocean.dal.ca with ESMTP id <17158-16979>; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:57:54 -0300
Received: from mixing.qc.dfo.ca (rhogee@localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mixing.qc.dfo.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id OAA02108
for <rhogee@phys.ocean.dal.ca>; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:57:42 -0400
Message-Id: <199908031857.OAA02108@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
To: rhogee@phys.ocean.dal.ca
Subject: test
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 14:57:42 -0400
From: Peter S Galbraith <rhogee@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
Return-Path: <rhogee@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
X-Orcpt: rfc822;rhogee@phys.ocean.dal.ca
Note that the `From:' line contains an unreachable (behind the
firewall) address of rhogee@mixing.qc.dfo.ca, my real username on
my host mixing.
Any ideas?
--
Peter Galbraith, research scientist <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546
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