[BUGS] Much ado about Sendmail

Jerahmy Pocott quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au
Tue Jan 8 21:40:19 EST 2008


Hello again everyone,

Since we are still talking sendmail..

 From the sendmail documentation:

"There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their  
internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name.  
Root is an example (which has been "exposed" by default prior to 8.10)."

Firstly WHY is root an example of a user that needs to be exposed?

This behavior breaks cron and system logs getting mailed to me, as  
exposing root makes the mail server reject the message.. So is there  
anything bad about having root get masqueraded? Is there a better  
alternative? And how can I force it to masquerade root, I don't see it  
any where in the config files..

Thanks! =)
J.


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