I entered 'deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk' (the system's FQDN) as the
mail name and 'smtp' (unqualified name of my smarthost) as the forward
host. However the mail comes out like this:
Return-path: <richard@smtp>
Envelope-to: richard@sfere.greenend.org.uk
Delivery-date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:04:57 +0100
Received: from deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk [172.17.207.12]
by sfere.anjou.terraraq.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63 #1 (Debian))
id 1K2kQr-0004uV-P8; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:04:57 +0100
Received: from deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-4) with ESMTP
id m51A4qO7009718
for <richard@sfere.greenend.org.uk>; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:04:52 +0100
Received: (from richard@localhost)
by deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m51A4qG2009717
for richard@sfere.greenend.org.uk; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:04:52 +0100
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:04:52 +0100
From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@smtp>
Message-Id: <200806011004.m51A4qG2009717@deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk>
To: richard@sfere.greenend.org.uk
Subject: test from deodand to richard@sfere.greenend.org.uk
As you can see it has used the name of the forwarding host as its mail
domain, which is not correct.
Here's a full transcript of what I did. As well as not producing a
correct configuration, a number of errors are reported below "Creating
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf...".
richard@deodand:/usr/share/doc/sendmail$ sudo sendmailconfig
Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.conf? [Y] y
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Writing configuration to /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Writing /etc/cron.d/sendmail.
Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] n
Sendmail Configuration
----------------------
By answering the following questions, you can configure sendmail for your
system. Default values are determined either by your existing
configuration
or from common usage.
Press [ENTER]
Mail Name
---------
Your `mail name' is the hostname portion of the address to be shown on
outgoing news and mail messages (following the username and @ sign). This
name will be used by other programs besides sendmail; it should be
the single,
full domain name (FQDN) from which mail will appear to originate.
Mail name? [deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk] deodand.anjou.terraraq.org.uk
Null Client
-----------
A special configuration known as the "null client" can be created for
this
host if all mail should be forwarded to a central hub via a local
SMTP-based
network. This may be a suitable configuration if you want to forward
all of
your mail to your local Internet service provider (ISP) for delivery.
To enable this option, give the name of the host to which all mail
should be
forwarded. Otherwise leave the option empty to disable it.
To remove a prior name, use `NONE'.
Null client forward host? [smtp] smtp
Configuration Complete
----------------------
Advanced configuration, such as alternate mailers, the use of
mailertables,
Bitnet domains, and UUCP domains can be accomplished by manually
editing the
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc configuration file and rerunning
`/usr/sbin/sendmailconfig' to generate the appropriate
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
file. (Local changes made at the end of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
will be preserved by `/usr/sbin/sendmailconfig'.)
The m4 library files for sendmail configuration are kept in the
/usr/share/sendmail/cf directory. You may wish to review the
documentation in /usr/share/doc/sendmail to assist in further
customization.
You may wish to customize your alias database; see the aliases(5) man
page
for information on the format and use of the /etc/aliases file.
Saving old /etc/mail/sendmail.mc as /etc/mail/sendmail.mc.old ...
Updating sendmail environment ...
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Writing configuration to /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Writing /etc/cron.d/sendmail.
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Writing configuration to /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Writing /etc/cron.d/sendmail.
Turning off Host Status collection
Could not open /etc/mail/databases(No such file or directory),
creating it.
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Creating /etc/mail/databases...
Checking filesystem, this may take some time - it will not hang!
... Done.
Checking for installed MDAs...
sasl2-bin not installed, not configuring sendmail support.
To enable sendmail SASL2 support at a later date, invoke
"/usr/share/sendmail/update_auth"
Creating/Updating SSL(for TLS) information
Creating /etc/mail/tls/starttls.m4...
You already have sendmail certificates
*** *** *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** *** ***
Everything you need to support STARTTLS (encrypted mail transmission
and user authentication via certificates) is installed and configured
but is *NOT* being used.
To enable sendmail to use STARTTLS, you need to:
1) Add this line to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and optionally
to /etc/mail/submit.mc:
include(`/etc/mail/tls/starttls.m4')dnl
2) Run sendmailconfig
3) Restart sendmail
Checking {sendmail,submit}.mc and related databases...
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Creating /etc/mail/databases...
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Creating /etc/mail/databases...
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Creating /etc/mail/Makefile...
Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Validating configuration.
Writing configuration to /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
Writing /etc/cron.d/sendmail.
Disabling HOST statistics file(/var/lib/sendmail/host_status).
Creating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** MAILER(`local') must appear after FEATURE(`allmasquerade')***
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** MAILER(`local') must appear after FEATURE(`allmasquerade')***
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: MAILER(local) already included
*** ERROR: MAILER(smtp) already included
Creating /etc/mail/submit.cf...
Informational: confCR_FILE file empty: /etc/mail/relay-domains
Informational: confCT_FILE file empty: /etc/mail/trusted-users
Updating /etc/mail/access...
Updating /etc/mail/aliases...
Warning: These messages were issued while creating sendmail.cf
make sure they are benign before starting sendmail!
Errors in generating sendmail.cf
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** MAILER(`local') must appear after FEATURE(`allmasquerade')***
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** MAILER(`local') must appear after FEATURE(`allmasquerade')***
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
*** ERROR: MAILER(local) already included
*** ERROR: MAILER(smtp) already included
Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] y
Reloading sendmail ...
richard@deodand:/usr/share/doc/sendmail$ mail
richard@sfere.greenend.org.uk
Subject: test from deodand to richard@sfere.greenend.org.uk
.
Cc:
Null message body; hope that's ok
richard@deodand:/usr/share/doc/sendmail$
ttfn/rjk