[comp.sys.sgi] PI as a gateway box vs. sendmail

larry@tapa.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) (11/12/90)

I am attempting to use a PI as a gateway box from our internal network of
assorted Unix and VMS boxes to the outside world (uunet in this case).  There
are several things I would like to do to mail that the sendmail.cf file
doesn't do such as:

1.  Relable outgoing mail as coming from a fixed machine i.e. abbott.com to
hide the details of our internal mail network.

2.  Have the sendmail understand that the gateway machine can be known by
one of several names such as turing, turing.abbott.com, abbott.com and
abtlabs.com.

3.  Send mail which has an unknown user and or machine name to another machine
for routing.


Option which I have conisdered are:  
spend the time to become a sendmail guru :-(,  replace sendmail with some
other mailer which does these things (smail 3.1 or mmdf?) or hope that someone
has alread done this and can provide some insight.

I will post/mail a summary if there is interest.

Thank's

Larry Pajakowski
Abbott Labs.
uunet!abtlabs!larry  (larry@abtlabs)
1-798-937-1153