I struggled with this at work a few months ago, and finally got it working. I wrote it all down in a webpage, mostly for my own reference; glad I did because a patch wiped out mail.cf and by that time I'd forgotten everything that I'd done. Anyway, you can read my notes on it at http://herd.plethora.net/~pscheie/unix/fixing_sendmail.html Petre >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 11/28/01, 1:10:55 PM, "Robert P. Goldman" <goldman at htc.honeywell.com> wrote regarding [TCLUG] low-end sendmail for envelope masquerading: > At home, I read and compose my email with VM in Xemacs. The only > problem wiht this from my standpoint is that sometimes it takes a long > time to send a message and the emacs will block while the SMTP > transaction goes on. > So I had the idea of installing sendmail and using envelope > masquerading and a smart host (there's a sendmail-address-rewriting > HOWTO about how to do this). Then my email would just leave emacs and > be slurped up by sendmail, effectively instantaneously, allowing me to > progress. > Well, the smart-host configuration is working like a champ, but the > envelope masquerading isn't. Just doesn't seem to do anything. When > I look at mail I send out through sendmail, I just see > <my-user-id>@localhost.localdomain > I can't find anything in the sendmail doc to explain how to > troubleshoot this kind of problem. No options that suggest how to > watch a piece of mail enter sendmail and walk through all those rules > (and rules and rules and rules....). Anyone have any suggestions? > I suppose another alternative would just be to make myself a > trusted_user and then have emacs do the envelope masquerading.... > Thanks, > R > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list