Sendmail (probly FAQish)

m.w.chang mwchang
Mon May 17 11:41:07 PDT 2004


hmm.. this one is what i needdd when I need to use my ISP's smtp as
smart relay for my local sendmail. some ISP's smtp checks the sender
names for existing domains if not the username.

thanks.

> Well, genericstable is for mapping outgoing usernames to the e-mail address so 
> that mail that I send looks like its coming from tim at thewudners.org instead 
> of dad (but I don't think that's working right).  It's the virtusertable that 
> maps e-mail names to user names.
> 
> Regardless, editting /etc/aliases, running newaliases and restarting sendmail 
> does the trick.
> 

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