Re: Sendmail woes

[Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>]

Cédric Chausson <cchausson noos fr> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I get returned mails from the mailer-daemon. It says could not send
> mail because
>
>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <Cedric Chausson work fr>
>      (reason: 553 5.1.8 <root localhost localdomain>... Domain of
>      sender address root localhost localdomain does not exist)
>
> Any ideas ?
>

I see two things.  You need to masquerade the envelope 
And probably use generictable to get rid of root as the user id.

Redhat used to have a nice little descrition of how to masquerade the
envelope on www.redhat.com in the support area.  Not sure if its
still there.  But a google groups search on comp.mail.sendmail would
probably give some hits on a search string of:
+masquerade +envelope

Its also in the sendmail faq somewhere on www.sendmail.com

A little searching on www.redhat.com turned this up:

   http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-sendmail-HOWTO/c239.html
Is it useful?