I working on setting up sendmail for the first time. I plan on using dovecut with sendmail. Reading through this document it says:
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When sendmail dispatches your email, it places the servers hostname behind your username, which becomes the "from address" in the email (ie. user@galaxy.example.com). Normally we only want to use the domainname and not the hostname, this setting allows all outgoing emails to be "user@example.com", the preferred method.
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CODE:
define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `example.com')dnl
FEATURE(`relay_entire_doma
After searching the file though, I CAN NOT FIND IT! Is it something I need to just add myself?
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I am using sendmail-8.13.1-2 and I am using dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4
The document I read was:
http://brennan.id.au/12-Se
The reason it interested me was when I do get this thing to work and send mail I do not want it to send user@galaxy.example.com but user@example.com. Yes I understand and it makes sense to me, your statement on the email client doing the display of the correct email address.
Maybe his point was for sending right from the linux box at the CLI?
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by: PsiCopPosted on 2005-04-06 at 08:48:03ID: 13718130
What document is that, and how old is it? That's not really good advice in the *modern* sendmail environment. What VERSION of sendmail do you have?
"relay_entire_domain" is generally a Bad Idea (tm), as it makes your server much easier for spammers to exploit. All they have to do is forge the envelope header to show an address @yourdomain.com and they can freely relay thru you, unless you take other steps to block that.
In the documentation you quote, the process (of adding the server hostname behind the user name) is known as "canonification". Generally, mail relays should not be bothered with that - it should be the responsibility of the MUA (Mail User Agent - whatever tool you use to compose E-Mail) to provide the fully-qualified E-Mail address.
Yes, you would need to add those statements to the sendmail.mc file, and then re-build the sendmail.cf. But frankly, I question the wisdom of those settings in the modern environment. Which is why I asked about the version of sendmail you're running, and the age of that documentation you're quoting.