Ok, after a weekend of frustration I've perused the news and the
sendmail documentation and FAQs and now I am a little confused.

What I want:

I have a Linux machine (Fedora Core 5) with me and my family setup as
users basically using our first names. We have a dialup account with
Verizon and we use four email addresses with that account. Obviously
the ISP email names don't match our user names.

We can setup the Mozilla and Thunderbird email clients to properly get
and send mail with Verizon, but this doesn't use the local sendmail
daemon.

Sometimes it would be nice to use the local sendmail with some
applications that for some reason or other may want to send an email
(i.e. a bug report, or a simple copy-n-paste in an emacs buffer).
However, Verizon wants to see and authenticate the email names we have
with the Verizon account, not the local user names.

So for these simple programs for outgoing mail I want to map:

(local_user)@localhost.localdomain => (Verizon_user)@verizon.net

and then authenticate for that Verizon user.

From the documentation it seems like it is possible to do using
masquerading, masquerade envelope, virtusertable and genericstable,
and the AuthInfo database, but I have been unsuccessful in
accomplishing it.

Then in the "How to use different auth for smarthost" thread I read that
it might not be possible?

How do I do this?

Do I need to use postfix or something?

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Joe Dalton

Joseph Dalton <jmdalton@cisco.com> writes:

> Ok, after a weekend of frustration I've perused the news and the
> sendmail documentation and FAQs and now I am a little confused.
>
> What I want:
>
> I have a Linux machine (Fedora Core 5) with me and my family setup as
> users basically using our first names. We have a dialup account with
> Verizon and we use four email addresses with that account. Obviously
> the ISP email names don't match our user names.
>
> We can setup the Mozilla and Thunderbird email clients to properly get
> and send mail with Verizon, but this doesn't use the local sendmail
> daemon.
>
> Sometimes it would be nice to use the local sendmail with some
> applications that for some reason or other may want to send an email
> (i.e. a bug report, or a simple copy-n-paste in an emacs buffer).
> However, Verizon wants to see and authenticate the email names we have
> with the Verizon account, not the local user names.
>
> So for these simple programs for outgoing mail I want to map:
>
> (local_user)@localhost.localdomain => (Verizon_user)@verizon.net
>
> and then authenticate for that Verizon user.
>
> From the documentation it seems like it is possible to do using
> masquerading, masquerade envelope, virtusertable and genericstable,
> and the AuthInfo database, but I have been unsuccessful in
> accomplishing it.
>
> Then in the "How to use different auth for smarthost" thread I read that
> it might not be possible?
>
> How do I do this?
>
> Do I need to use postfix or something?

The *ONLY* thing from your "wishlist" *untested* in sendmail.cf is using
more than one set of authentication credentials for one smart host based
on sending user. As you read in the other thread I think it can be done
by sendmail.cf too.

BTW I can get a DNS domain "free of charge" e.g. at dyndns.org

P.S.
I have "discontinued" the official page of "smart table".
[ routing based on envelope sender email address ]

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[pl2en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi@priv.onet.pl : anfi@xl.wp.pl