[TriLUG] Sendmail with virtual hosts (8.11.6)

[Jon Carnes]

Two things:

- Look at the www.sendmail.org page and look up how to do virtual hosts 
with Sendmail (ie use the Generics tables)
- Chuck sendmail and use an MTA that is much more amenable to virtual 
hosting (like postfix...)

Jon

On Sunday 07 July 2002 12:07 am, Errol Casey wrote:
> I've noticed an issue in a personal configuration of sendmail with
> virtual host.
>
> In the received headers, of a received message from the virtual host
> the correct hostname is listed, followed by the hostname and IP of the
> domain on the main interface hosting
> the virtual host.
>
> Main.com 192.168.0.1 (eth0)
> Virt.com 192.168.0.2 (eth0:0)
> Virt2.com 192.168.0.3 (eth0:1)
> etc...
>
>
> Received By: virt.com (main.com [192.168.0.1])
>
> It seems in my investigation, that the $_ macro is expanded by doing
> some kinda of reverse lookup, and ident call (which is disabled on the
> hosting box).
>
> But it seems, sendmail is sending out possibly on the 196.168.0.1
> interface instead of the 192.168.0.2.
>
> I've found brief documentation on DaemonOptions and ClientOptions, and
> it would seem I might want to "bind" the interface using M=b; but this
> hasn't worked so far for me.
>
> Does anybody have a working configuration with virtual hosts, that they
> might could share to educate me.
>
> I'm using Sendmail 8.11.6 on this host. Sending and receiving for both
> main and virtual hosts is working fine, it's just this header issue I'm
> trying to resolve.