[thelist] Re: Email Bouncing

Chris Marsh chris at ecleanuk.com
Mon Mar 10 11:33:28 CST 2003


>  "Chris Marsh" <chris at ecleanuk.com> asks...
> > Does anyone know how to set up outgoing address mapping on
> a Linux box
> > so that instead of bounced mails being returned back to the server
> > name, they are bounced back to a specific domain name?
>
> It's called "masquerading" in Postfix, a drop-in secure
> replacement for sendmail. (Recent RedHats give you the
> ability to pick Postfix or sendmail as your mail server using
> a graphical tool; it's that
> simple.)
>
> You will just change a line in the /etc/postfix/main.cf to
> tell it that all outgoing mail should show as coming from
> 'domain' rather than 'server.domain' -- there are comments
> inline that explain it all.  MUCH more human-friendly than
> sendmail configuration.

Thanks for the info. I have to use Sendmail, but this information was
enough to get me on the right track.

Regards

Chris Marsh




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