Here is my nightmare:
I am a service tech that spends most of my day in the field.

I am running Suse 9.0 on my laptop.
I use my laptop on the clients network to send and receive emails
back to the office to give them updates of tickets.

Here is what I am trying to do.

When I send an email to say joe@company.com
I want sendmail to tell company.com's email server that I am
mail.mycompany.net NOT machinename.mycompany.net
as this is causing many of the emails to bounce for either relaying denied
or 550-Verification failed for <myuid@machinename.mycompany.net> Unrouteable address


I do not use sendmail for receiving email only for sending.
I use Kmail for receiving.

If there is a way to do this with sendmail or a different MTA
your advice would be great help.


TIA
Thorkyl

Actually it sounds like what you want is to strip the machine name from the domain.

The first thing that popped up on Google was this page which is doing the same thing, but for a different reason. Scroll to the bottom of the page for instructions on how to edit your sendmail.cf (not recommended) or the sendmail.mc (strongly recommended). There is also a link at the bottom of the page to instructions for rebuilding sendmail after editing the mc files.

That kinda worked...
It did change the email domain.

Here is an email I just sent myself.
If you look at the return path and the received from

those are the two I need to change.

the key issue I am having is that houston.rr.com along with others blocks all email
if it cant ping the mail server (by name) that the mail is coming from.
so does our company email server and a lot of our clients servers as they
are hosted by the same company.

Here is the email headers and such
<email address changes to protect the stupid>

Return-Path: <me@mylaptop.mydomain.com>
Received: from mylaptop.mydomain.com (adsl-65-71-105-241.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [65.71.105.241])
________by mail.goodserver.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i05JP5K25951
________for <me@goodserver.net>; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:25:05 -0600
Received: from mylaptop.mydomain.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
________by mylaptop.mydomain.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id i05HRhqk004124
________for <me@goodserver.net>; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:27:57 -0600
Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]])
________by mylaptop.mydomain.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i05HRTq0004062
________for me@goodserver.net; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:27:29 -0600
From: Thor <thorkyl@ev1.net>
Reply-To: thorkyl@ev1.net
To: me@goodserver.net
Subject: testing sendmail
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:27:29 -0600
User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
_ charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200401051127.29102.thorkyl@ev1.net>
Status: R
X-Status: N
X-KMail-EncryptionState: _
X-KMail-SignatureState: _


here is the test message

Well with all the work you're going through, wouldn't it be productive to setup a VPN back to your office so you can have a dedicated path back to any resources you need to access? That way it will handle things like authentication, etc and you won't have to worry about punching holes in your security policies or circumventing any mechanisms.

I agree.
but then at the same time I do use this for personal email that I dont want going through the
company email server.

Thats what happens when you provide your own laptop.

What it really comes down to is, I want to send an email to my home account (ev1.net)
and also to my wifes work account houston.rr.com.

Thorkyl

Well you could setup and tear down your VPN tunnel to work, so that wouldn't preclude you from sending personal e-mail. I'd talk to your company to see if they have the capability to setup a VPN from your machine back to the office when you're at remote sites.

Will start there.

Thanks for the advice.

Thorkyl

for your original request try to put this in you sendmail.mc and rebuild you .cf file

define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `mail.mycompany.com')dnl