Original post:
>We're trying to setup our system so that outgoing mail will have
>
> FROM: user_at_DICKINSON.EDU
>
>instead of
>
> FROM: user_at_hostname.DICKINSON.EDU
>
>Mailsetup alters changes DWhostname.dickinson.edu to DWdickinson.edu but
>this doesn't seem to make a difference in the headers, using mailx, pine,
>whatever. Is this a bug?
Most of the suggestions were to re-freeze the config file, but this doesn't
apply to OSFs version of sendmail. This is handled be doing a "restart"
/sbin/init.d/sendmail restart
I was doing this all along so that wasn't the solution either..
So I punted. Chris from DEC Support logged-in and took care of things. I was
surprised to learn that there is one person out there that understands and even
ENJOYS working with sendmail! Chris fixed us right up.. I can't explain why
he did what he did but here's the 'diff' in the files...
su-/usr/var/adm/sendmail-95> diff sendmail.cf.org sendmail.cf
380c380
< R$*<_at_$+>$* $:$1<_at_$[$2$]>$3 canon'ize complex name
s
---
> #R$*<_at_$+>$* $:$1<_at_$[$2$]>$3 canon'ize complex name
s
476a477
> R$- $_at_$1<_at_$N> user_at_domain
Thanks to all who replied.
-Bill Sadvary
Dickinson College
Received on Tue Jul 25 1995 - 23:25:37 NZST