[TriLUG] postfix - eliminating or munging return-path header

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 13:30, Thunder Bear wrote:
> Hey has anyone here had an issue where the return-path was being
> inserted by Postfix incorrectly, using a private domain name instead of
> public domain?  I'm having some difficulty finding doc online of anyone
> else having this problem.
> 
> Say, for example, my public domain is yonderway.com and my intranet
> domain is yonderway.priv.  Outbound messages are being munged by Postfix
> to have "Return-path: <thunderbear at mailhost.yonderway.priv>" which
> causes some remote hosts to reject mail from me since they cannot
> resolve mailhost.yonderway.priv.  I cannot for the life of me find
> anything in the postfix config files that would set that line up, and
> the best I can figure is it is doing a reverse lookup of its own private
> IP address to get that hostname.
> 
> I'd like to either eliminate that path or fix it to use the public
> domain name.

Have you looked into masquerading?

Or, do you have yonderway.com as a virtual domain for your
internal hosts?

Alternatively, you could change your internal domain to be 
a subdomain of yonderway.com.  That's what I've done at home.
All my internal machines are in the house.wayfarer.org domain.

Tanner
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