[KLUG Members] sendmail question

Dirk H Bartley members@kalamazoolinux.org
30 Apr 2003 11:14:23 -0400


On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 11:04, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > You should be able to do it in sendmail, but it would seem like you
> > > could customize the vsifax package - after all, you already have the
> > > string "schupan" in the return path.  Where is it getting that?  Find
> > > out where that's coming from and change it to "schupan.com".
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I already looked there.  Vsifax is getting the string
> > srvbai1.schupan  from a hostname system call.  There is a vsifax tag
> > that is changing the from address in the header, but it is not changing
> > the return path like a -f option in a sendmail command would.
> 
> Dirk is right, as a VisiFax user I can assure you there is no way to
> make it behave in any manner other than literally grabbing the host
> name.
> 
> Seems like the generics table might be the solution for this.
> 
What is the generics table?  This is a new animal to me.

Dirk