--- Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On 22-Oct-2000 Hyung Kim spoke something to the
> effect:
> > I am having problems with sendmail.
> > 
> > I used m4 to configure sendmail.cf to masquerade
> > emails using the SMPT address of my ISP.
> > 
> > For several months I had no problems sending
> email. 
> > Then several days ago, emails to certain addresses
> > were being rejected by the host servers.  I did
> not
> > make any changes to my configuration files.
> > 
> > When I send myself an email, the header, next to
> > 'received from' has the name of my local machine
> and
> > not the server I am trying to masquerade as.
> > 
> > My first question is:  if masquerade is working,
> > should my email header only list my local machine?
> 
> No.
> 
> > My second question is:  why did sendmail stop
> working?
> 
> Did you use linuxconf? I've had more sendmail.cf
> files destroyed by it
> than I can count.

no, I used M4 to write my sendmail.cf file

> 
> How long has it been up and running without shutting
> sendmail down and
> restarting or rebooting the machine? It shouldn't
> matter, but it might.

I tried rebooting, but it did not make a difference.

> 
> Could you have been broken into and some changes to
> this as well as other
> files have been made? Are there any other things
> that mysteriously
> started working wrong or not working at all?

Nothing seems out of the ordinary.  It is unlikely
that someone hacked my computer since I have a dial-up
ISP with a firewall, and there is nothing suspicious
in my logs.

> 
> You can try using m4 again to see if it fixes it.

I tried this.  How do you suggest I configure
sendmail?

> 
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