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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hostname for box w/ part time internet connection
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:49:28 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <ly90zjdqa0.fsf@dxca0n.bn.detemobil.de>,
Stefan Moeding <moeding@dxca0n.bn.detemobil.de> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
> brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> With a "dynamic" IP number, you have to get creative. You have to
>> think of a machine name (the most tricky bit). Think of a name that's
>> not likely to be used in the real world - say ending in .lan. Once
>> you've done this (say it's "flacid.twinkletoes.lan"), your mailer
>> will use this name by default. You've got to make it use
>> "myname@myisp.net", otherwise people that reply to your mail will
>> fail to resolve "flacid". Now you're into the "sendmail" world
>> (unless you know of a better mailer, in which case you don't need
>> to be reading this - go away).
>
> I'm just working on the same problem. There is one thing I'm not
> certain about:
>
> If I let sendmail create the "Message-ID" and "Received" headers
> (which it should according to the book), they contain references
> to an "imaginary" host/domain. Is this really ok?
> A "Received: by mybox.europe.earth.universe" doesn't really give a
> hint where the message came from.
>
> I was hacking leafnode over the weekend to strip the Path-header from
> my posts, but now it looks like I can ignore my second thoughts
> and just let sendmail/leafnode slam my private domain onto my posts.
You can probably affect the message id if you specify
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) with my previous example.
> Stefan
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !