Re: Sendmail Replay problem

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On 12/17/10 6:49 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:27 AM, sync<jiannma@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/16/10 2:56 AM, sync wrote:
>>>> Hi , guys :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem about the sendmail replay . The following is my
>>>> condition:
>>>>
>>>> I have installed the sendmail server on my laptop which installed
>>>>   CentOS 5.5
>>>> x86 64,
>>>> and I want to set up the sendmail replay.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That is to say . If my linux account called test and his mail address is
>>>> test@xxxxxxxx<mailto:test@xxxxxxxx>,
>>>> when he get the new mail, then the server send the mail to the company
>>>> mail
>>>> server ,
>>>>    the new mail address is test@xxxxxx<mailto:test@xxxxxx>
>>>
>>> I assume you mean relay instead of replay, but your example requires the
>>> address
>>> to be re-written so maybe you mean forwarding.  For known users you can
>>> manage
>>> this with aliases.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for all suggestions.
>
> I didn't see "install exim". You see, sendmail is very poor about
> dealing with unqualified local email addresses: "root" and yout local
> account name won't get relayed to the smarthost unless you set up
> aliases or .forwards or other settings for them, anyway.

Being able to configure those separately is a feature, not a bug.  But another 
problem is that these days most systems you would forward to won't accept email 
unless the 'From: ' has a domain that can be resolved in DNS which can be hard 
to arrange on system-generated mail on some ad-hoc machine.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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