Tim wrote: > I'm not talking about IP addresses, I mean email addresses. Presume > that I am tim@localhost on my machine, and I masquerade my mail to > change localhost to the domain name of my ISP (e.g. example.com), and I > (now) send out my mail as tim@xxxxxxxxxxx, to save me from configuring > my mail clients. But, *I* shouldn't do that, because I am not user > "tim" on my ISP, some other person has that ISP mail account. That is exactly my problem. I am "tim" on my own machines, but "gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx" to my ISP. > Masquerading has to be done with due care, as with just about all > aspects of running a mail server attached to the public internet. I must admit I am still not clear about the purpose of masquerading. What is a concrete situation where it might make sense? Incidentally, I don't think I am running a mail SERVER as I understand that term. I collect all my email from external mail servers with fetchmail . -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
