Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Geis" <geisj at >> pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> To: >> "CentOS ML" <centos at centos.org >> <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> Sent: Wednesday, >> November 14, 2007 12:11:02 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane Subject: >> [CentOS] configuring sendmails domain >> I tried editing sendmail.cf and changing the Dj line to X.com so any >> email originating from my machine would be X.com not m.X.com where m >> is machine name. >> I typed make in the /etc/mail directory and did service sendmail restart. >> This did not work. email still shows as m.X.com >> What am I missing so as to NOT have the machine name in the email >> address. I just want the domain. >> Thanks, >> Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing >> list CentOS at centos.org >> <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by >> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. >> >> >> >> Editing the .cf file is not the way to do this sort of thing. Ensure >> you have the sendmail-cf package installed and make your changes to >> the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and then type 'make' to build the new >> .cf. Then restart sendmail. >> >> Incidentally, the .mc file has the necessary parameters in it that you >> may be looking for; >> >> dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')dnl dnl # dnl # masquerade not just >> the headers, but the envelope as well dnl # dnl >> FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl dnl # dnl # masquerade not just >> @mydomainalias.com, but @*.mydomainalias.com as well dnl # dnl >> FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl dnl # dnl >> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost)dnl dnl >> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost.localdomain)dnl dnl >> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(mydomainalias.com)dnl dnl >> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(mydomain.lan)dnl >> >> > I changed all the above to my X.com domain removed the dnl's on the line > did a make in the /etc/mail directory, did service sendmail restart > and I still get m.X.com and not just X.com > > What am I still missing something? Thanks, Did your send your test email as root? Either use a different login or comment out the EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl line and restart sendmail with 'service sendmail restart' (which will automatically rebuild sendmail.cf). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com