Another Postfix-ish question

Dan Nguyen nguyend7@egr.msu.edu
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:40:41 -0400


Probably the easiest way is to set up the system to a rewrite rule.
You should be able to set up a trivial rewrite with the canonical_map


On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:59:04PM -0400, Matt Fuerst wrote:
> Well I am exploring my Relaying options, I appreciate all of your sharing
> your mind with me...
> 
> (All Redhat network) One more question... I have postfix set up on my
> machine, named luckycharms. I have another machine on my network named
> fruitloops.  I have my DNS Record set up for luckycharms to be my Mail
> Server. This works great, I send mail to fuerstma@mydomain.com and it flows
> right into luckycharms.mydomain.com. Viola.
> 
> However, when I send mail while logged into luckycharms... problem.
> 
> The mail arrives at its destination, with a FROM and REPLY address of
> fuerstma@fruitloops.mydomain.com. Argh. This happens with both elm and pine
> so I imagine it is not a setting specific to an e-mail client.
> 
> man mail, man postfix don't seem to tell me where this value is coming from.
> 
> On luckycharms, contents of /etc/HOSTNAME: luckycharms.mathosting.com
> HOSTNAME within /etc/sysconfig/network is luckycharms.
> 
> I can't imagine where else it would be finding the name FRUITLOOPS at all,
> really. I have an entry for fruitloops in my /etc/hosts file but that is it.
> 
> I'm sorry for the spam.. I honestly ran into this error (I thought relaying
> was the only one!) While trying to subscribe to the postfix mailing list to
> begin lurking there and hopefully picking up some of these answer w/o
> bothering you all...
> 
> Matt
> 
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