02/28/2003 9:14 AM Sendmail SCO OSR5

02/28/2003 9:14 AM Sendmail SCO OSR5

While helping a customer with a sendmail issue I was reminded that stock SCO doesn't include a suitable .mc file. This customer wants to rewrite the user names so that when mail goes out it appears to come from a completely different name. That appears to be possible with the "genericstable" feature of 8.8 and up:

You'd add

FEATURE(`genericstable', `dbm /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl) to your .mc file.

You'd create "yourlist" containing lines like: fred fred_jones@wherever.com

and then

makemap dbm /etc/mail/genericstable < yourlist

then remake the cf as usual. But without a starting .cf, you can't do much.

http://dbforums.com/arch/183/2002/6/409937 looks like a good howto for upgrading Openserver to a more recent sendmail.

The .mc file there is badly wrapped: (and isn't fixed here yet either but I'm working at it!)

divert(-1)
#
# Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers. All rights reserved.
# Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
# The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
#
# By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set forth in the LICENSE
# file which can be found at the top level of the sendmail distribution.
#
# Written for SCO OpenServer 5.0.x June 10th, 2002 Matt Lewis
divert(0)dnl 
include(`/usr/local/sendmail-8.11.0/cf/m4/cf.m4') 
#This defines local variables for OpenServer 
VERSIONID(`$Id: sco-generic.mc,v 8.16 1999/04/24 05:37:43 gshapiro Exp $')dnl 
OSTYPE(`sco3.2') 
define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/usr/lib/mail/aliases')dnl
FEATURE(`access_db',`hash /usr/lib/mail/access')dnl 
#Listing of hosts we relay for
define(`confCR_FILE',`/usr/lib/mail/relay-domains')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`testdomain.com')dnl
# Needed to fix error with /usr/lib/uucp/ permission on SCO OpenServer 8..x 
define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL',`GroupWritableDirPathSafe')dnl
# Cut down on spam set Max recipents to 15
define(`confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE',`15')dnl
# File containing hosts we accept mail for locally
define(`confCW_FILE',`/usr/lib/mail/local-host-names')dnl 
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
#This is important takes care of Wild Card MX records and a problem with OpenServer resolve 
define(`confBIND_OPTS',`-DNSRCH -DEFNAMES')dnl 
MAILER(smtp)dnl

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