I have a machine running Sendmail and I'd like it to use an Exchange
server for a smart host. It's an AIX machine, but I had the same
problem on a Tru64 machine, about a year or two ago, and I never got it
resolved.

I'd like *all* email to go through the Exchange server - local or not.
I have the following lines in my sendmail.cf:

DSsmtp:mail.mydomain.com
DRsmtp:mail.mydomain.com
DHsmtp:mail.mydomain.com

For outgoing mail, this works fine. However, when I use the command:

mailx -v -s Testing me@mydomain.com

I see that sendmail rewrites the address as:

me@mail.mydomain.com

Apparently, Exchange doesn't like that. Is it possible to get sendmail
to leave the address completely alone and just make the Exchange server
handle it?

Thanks

dadoo3002@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a machine running Sendmail and I'd like it to use an Exchange
> server for a smart host. It's an AIX machine, but I had the same
> problem on a Tru64 machine, about a year or two ago, and I never got it
> resolved.
>
> I'd like *all* email to go through the Exchange server - local or not.
> I have the following lines in my sendmail.cf:
>
> DSsmtp:mail.mydomain.com
> DRsmtp:mail.mydomain.com
> DHsmtp:mail.mydomain.com
>
> For outgoing mail, this works fine. However, when I use the command:
>
> mailx -v -s Testing me@mydomain.com
>
> I see that sendmail rewrites the address as:
>
> me@mail.mydomain.com
>
> Apparently, Exchange doesn't like that. Is it possible to get sendmail
> to leave the address completely alone and just make the Exchange server
> handle it?
>
> Thanks
>


use masquerade and masquerade_envelope.

Alton Yu wrote:
>
> use masquerade and masquerade_envelope.

That worked, thanks, but it wasn't easy. AIX doesn't have sendmail.mc
and all the other stuff to build a cf file. I had to go to a Linux
machine, set up the sendmail.mc there, "make" it, then transfer
sendmail.cf to the AIX machine.

There was one problem: apparently, AIX wanted a version 9 sendmail.cf
file, while Linux produced a version 10 file. Initially sendmail on AIX
choked on the file, so I went in and changed the "V10/Berkeley" line to
"V9/Berkeley". I know it's a total kluge, but all I really want is for
the machine to email me its logs.

Is there any reason that shouldn't work, for my limited purposes?

Thanks for your

dadoo3002@gmail.com wrote:
> Alton Yu wrote:
>> use masquerade and masquerade_envelope.
>
> That worked, thanks, but it wasn't easy. AIX doesn't have sendmail.mc
> and all the other stuff to build a cf file. I had to go to a Linux
> machine, set up the sendmail.mc there, "make" it, then transfer
> sendmail.cf to the AIX machine.
>
> There was one problem: apparently, AIX wanted a version 9 sendmail.cf
> file, while Linux produced a version 10 file. Initially sendmail on AIX
> choked on the file, so I went in and changed the "V10/Berkeley" line to
> "V9/Berkeley". I know it's a total kluge, but all I really want is for
> the machine to email me its logs.
>
> Is there any reason that shouldn't work, for my limited purposes?
>
> Thanks for your
>

Download the source and use that.

Good luck.