Re: [cobalt-users] Mail Question

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:28 PM 6/23/99  Paul Senzee wrote:

> Yeah, I *have* to have it read paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to change some of my
> domain name registries (since I registered them that way) through netsol.

You really don't, though instructions for doing so are included at the 
bottom of this post.  What kind of an email client do you use for your 
Progidy account?  Can you change the "From:" address in that client?  If 
so, just change it so your outgoing email reads "From: 
paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".  Network Solutions doesn't seem to care about 
envelope information, just headers, over which MOST email clients give you 
full control.  If you can do this, then you can send the changes from your 
Prodigy account (Prodigy may block such outgoing email, though).

You might also try changing your personal handle (for example, mine is 
JLxxxx).  I was recently able to change one from a non-approved 
address.  You may have to fax Network Solutions some information to make 
the change but it shouldn't take longer than a few days.

To keep this from happening in the future, you should change your Network 
Solutions authentication method from "Mail-from" to "Password Authentication".

You probably shouldn't even use Network Solutions in the future.  We offer 
a solution that uses humans as necessary as intermediaries, and could have 
fixed this for you in minutes for domains registered through us.  We charge 
us$60 for an initial two-year registration, lower for ISPs and other bulk 
registration entities.

> Otherwise, i wouldn't care...

You can change the domain that sendmail "masquerades" under by using the 
"masquerade" feature.

Here's the relevant part of the /etc/sendmail.cf file (I just copied it off 
my RaQ2):

 # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if we 
masquerade
 # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even if we have a relay
 # class M: domains that should be converted to $M
 #CL root
 CE root

 # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
 DM

Please note that I've never seen any reason to use these features, so I 
cannot give you any further help on them.  I strongly sugest buying a copy 
of the O'Reilly book, "sendmail", by Costales and Allman.  Since Eric 
Allman is one of the authors, and is the chief architect of sendmail (the 
program), this book will be very helpful.  Look up "masquerade" in the index.

That said, I'd imagine you need to add a line as follows (no indent, of course)

 CL paul

and another line as follows:

 DM fragrantvagrant.com

> I appreciate your help!

I hope this helps a bit.  I strongly recommend the book.

Jeff

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