[cobalt-users] Question regarding Sendmail Configuration - Not using default machine's IP for outgoing connections.

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, I'ld like to say that I'm not participating on the list lately.

I just got way too many e-mails to handle (especially when each one of
them goes to my cellular phone) so I moved to digest mode. From some
reason, Mr. Cobalt Mailserver will only deliver me the cobalt-security
digest and not the cobalt-users one. Perhaps someone reading this would
know... :-)

Anyhow, I need my sendmail to not use my default IP address when it sends
OUTGOING mail, but a different one on the machine (again, I'm talking
about connections OUTGOING to port 25 of OTHER machines), not other
machines connecting to me to deliver to my users...

I've googlized for that, searched the whole sendmail.org FAQ, and even
went over the contents table and index of the book "Sendmail" by Brian
Costales and Eric Allman with no luck.

Some sort of port forwarding would be ok too (granted thatit'll be using
IPChains)....

Thanks in advance.

(Why does any other TCP/IP program in the world has a bind_ip
parameter???)

  Best regards,
     shimi [mailto:shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]


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