[news.software.b] domain address in outbound news...

dean@truevision.com (Dean Riddlebarger) (05/25/90)

We are running news [b2.11] with sendmail as our mailer on an
ISC UNIX [386/ix] machine.  We have a domain name, but our
mail/news server and local downstream machines on the ethernet
do not use the domain prefix as their uunames [it's a long
story involving traditions around here...:-)].

So, I've defined in the GENERICFROM line in the defs.h file for
news to be our domain name [truevision.com], and at least one
"From:" line in outbound postings is structured correctly as a
result.  [E.g. it looks like dean@truevision.com]  However,
the Reply-To: line still has the system uname embedded.
[E.g. it looks like dean@epicb.UUCP]  And the Mail-ID line
picks up the uname as well.  

My questions:  Will the HIDDENNET variable in defs.h fix this,
at least partially? Or will we need to make more modifications
to our sendmail config files?  [Oddly, if you shoot something
out via mail the domain addressing looks good, so I doubt that
there is a connection.....]

Suggestions welcome.  [Yep, I'm going to move to smail sooner
or later....]


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<:>   Dean Riddlebarger                               "The bus came by       <:>
<:>   MIS Manager - Truevision, Inc.                    and I got on,        <:>
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