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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: format of the From: line
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.114656.18371@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1992Jul24.034141.1097@cs.umn.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:46:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.034141.1097@cs.umn.edu> iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou) writes:
- > I have a client that forwards all mail off to a host in order to
- > deliver the mail. The name of the client is "joe.cs.umn.edu", and
- > the name of the host is "smoe.cs.umn.edu". I want mail to appear as
- > though it originated from "cs.umn.edu". My client it running SunOS
- > sendmail 4.1, and my host is running 5.65c+IDA
-
- This can be taken care of on the host with the IDA config package. The
- HIDDENNET or HIDDENDOMAIN or DOMAINTABLE options provide several ways
- of accomplishing this address rewrite.
-
- > Now, my problem. My client does not write the From: line in the form of:
- >
- > From: iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou)
- >
- > Instead, it writes it in the form of:
- >
- > From: iacovou@cs.umn.edu
-
- Does your mailserver host have the same users? If so, you should be able
- to have the name added by the server instead of the client. For this,
- change your "From:" line definition to:
-
- Dq$?x$!x $.<$f>
-
- Most likely this will have the effect you desire.
-
-