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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: eyager@novagate.com (Eric Yagerlener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Return address with "mail" Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:55:43 GMT Organization: One FreeBSD box Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5jqknd$63g@tofu.alt.net> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39722 I have the old 2.1.0 release running on my box. When I reply by mail in tin, it send my mail out with the return address eyager@localhost. This is not good, because the localhost gets transformed to whatever the domain name the machine recieving it was. The same problem will occur if you use the "mail" program that was part of the distribution. How would I do to fix this problem? If somehow I changed the sendmail configuration to translate @localhost to mean @novagate.com, I still would have a problem because all the mail for news, root, and all the other pseudo-accounts on my system will get sent to my ISP's mail server. I doubt that they would be interested in recieving all of my mail. Here is the tricky part... How would I configure sendmail to translate eyager@localhost to eyager@novagate.com and leave all the other addresses alone? The version of sendmail I seem to have is 8.6.12. Thanks eyager@novagate.com