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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Quest? -- Adjust "From:" field in sendmail
Date: 22 Apr 1997 02:59:53 GMT
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Honorable Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf
      wrote on 19 Apr (in article <5jbj58$4ld@goofy.snet.net>):

=be properly responded to by my recipients.  So my question is, can
=I configure sendmail in some way that it always lists the response
=address of all the mail from all my users as "metcalf@snet.net"
=rather than "jeff@dane.snet.net" or "sonya@dane.snet.net", etc.?
=
=Any help is greatly appreciated.

If you look in /etc/sendmail.cf, there is a paragraph with:
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
DM

For example, one of my machines (rtfm) masquerades as another (aldan):
DMaldan.ziplink.net

	-mi
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