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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!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!shift.utell.net!nobody 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. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <o6pcq5.tte.ln@shift.utell.net> References: <33B462A3.C9A68B9C@auburn.campus.mci.net> <5pknen$l9c$1@the-fly.zip.com.au> <38gqp5.rqd.ln@shift.utell.net> <ly90zjdqa0.fsf@dxca0n.bn.DeTeMobil.de> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44391 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 !