[TriLUG] Cross domain forwarding in sendmail?

[Jeff Groves]

Rick DeNatale wrote:

>I'm running a couple of apache applications, which keep an e-mail
>address to allow users to contact me as well as to use to send me
>notices when events of interest happen.
>
>I prefer to use my gmail address for these since I almost always have
>access to it.
>
>But this means that the notices are coming from my machine, but saying
>that they are from gmail.google.com. Now that google has implemented
>the server checking protocol proposed by yahoo, it puts a warning that
>such emails aren't really coming from gmail. I'm concerned that they
>will turn this warning into throwing such emails away as spam.
>
>So, I'd like to set up a local email address and have sendmail forward
>any messages received   or sent by this address to my gmail address.
>
>Whats the best way to configure sendmail and/or procmail to do this.
>I'd gladly RTFM, but I can't figure out WPOTFMTR.
>  
>
Check out sendmail configuration options at:

   http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html

and possibly:

   http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html


Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer.

Jeff G.