sendmail domain configuration

[Matthew Seaman]

stan wrote:
> I am trying to work around some design issues. Some of out FreeBSD macines
> must live in a made up domain. As a result from these machines gtes
> discarded by an sensible mail handling system. 
> 
> I have solved this problem on some Soalris machines that also si`uffer from
> this same design by settting the doamin macro in thier sendmail.cf as
> follows:
> 
> Dj$w.realdomain.com
> 
> OI know that in FreeBSD I should not edit sendmail.cf directly, but instead
> should edit the appropriate .mc file, and remake the .cf file. But I cannot
> find the documentation as to how to set this particular sendmail macro from
> the .mc file
> 
> Can anyou give me some guidance here? 
> 

/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README documents what you can put into a sendmail .mc
file.  The specific thing you want is:

define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.realdomain.com')dnl

Add this to the `hostname`.mc file, and then just type 'make' in /etc/mail to generate a .cf file from it.  To generate and install that .cf file and restart sendmail to use it all in one, just do:

   # make all install restart 

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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