[Gllug] Postfix and masquerading

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:34:15PM +0000, Jack Bertram wrote:
> I've recently installed Ubuntu in place of my old home-grown Linux
> system and have forgotten what setting I changed in Postfix to stop it
> rewriting the addresses of local users before sending.
> 
> I used to be able to change my From address from 
> 
> Jack Bertram <jack at jbertram.net> 
> 
> to 
> 
> A N Other <an at other.com>
> 
> before sending in mutt, and Postfix would happily despatch it.  No
> longer - it gets changed to jack at jbertram.net.  I've googled but there
> are so many rewriting/masquerading configurations I can't quite work out
> which is the right configuration command.  Any ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> jack

Hi
I can send email with incorrect "From" addresses on a machine 
running Postfix v1. But I don't have easy access to a machine 
running Postfix v2, which is what I guess Ubuntu is using.

Anyway the usual setting that rewrites addresses in the headers 
is the "canonical_maps" option - which is usually a hash file 
called "canonical". Have a look at the main.cf and see if you 
have anything set for "canonical_maps". Also you will need to 
rebuild the hash db after editing the "canonical" text file.


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