pop quiz! configure sendmail to accept IP addrs!

Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Fri Oct 14 12:32:43 UTC 2005


On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:30:46PM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> Hi all, 
> Got a quickie here, maybe not doable?
> 
> I want to configure my Sendmail system to accept email addressed to
> my IP address (24.91.157.212) as well as to "kinz.org".

Aaaaand the answer is .....

/etc/mail/local-host-names   #Lists of hosts Sendmail accepts mail for

Just put the IP address in this file.

OK, now I'm ready for the International DNS fight. (not)

> I want emails to  "X at 24.91.157.212" to be accepted by the same sendmail
> process.  I have tried adding another MASQUERADE_AS macro to
> sendmail.mc, but that wasn't the answer.  They just bounced.

After checking the Bat book (O'Reilly), I discovered that MASQERADE_AS
is so wrong for this its funny. (Hey, I took a shot.. :-) )


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