My initial question was:
"We are running Solaris 2.5 and using Sun's sendmail version 8.6
The problem is that whenever email is received by the mail server from a
system inside the company, and hence is using ether as the mail relay
mechanism, the from address (when it is originally in the form of
user@'local-machinename') is rewritten to be
Mailer-Daemon@'mailserver.ourdomainname'. The only time that does not
happen is if the local-machinename is in the mailservers local
/etc/hosts file."
The overwhelming ( and actually the only ) answer was to scrap Sun's old
sendmail
and convert to something newer. The responses were split between
sendmail 8.9.0 and
sendmail 8.8.8.
Chris Marble has a nice web page (www3.hmc.edu/docs/coolstuff/sendmail)
where he gives pretty
detailed instructions on setting up sendmail 8.8.8 so I chose that
version. At the current time I am still
playing with the sendmail.cf file to get it set for my specific needs
but I am sure that I will have less
problems once I am done.
Thanks to the following for their kind responses:
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>
Karl Vogel <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>
Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
Gianluca Rotoni <gianluca@tell.ascom.ch>
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