>How do I rewrite outgoing mail to lastname.firstname@domainname?
Most of the responses I got were "I'd like to do that also". A few
said this is easily done with Sendmail+IDA found at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.
I decided to work with the sendmail that comes with SunOS.
The key to rewriting sender addresses is the metasymbol "${x key$}"
which looks up "key" in NIS map $x and returns the value. This is used
in the ddn mailer ruleset S22 to look up sender addresses of the
form "user@host" in the mail.byaddr NIS map and rewrite it to the
value found in mail.byaddr. The ddn mailer is my outgoing mailer
so I worked on it.
Most of our sender addresses look like "user" and a few like "user@client".
I added a rule to S22 to also look up "user" in mail.byaddr. I also
added some lines to /var/yp/Makefile to rebuild mail.byaddr from the
Firstname.Lastname aliases in /etc/aliases.
If you are similiarly configured like us, all it takes is a line to
S22, 4 lines to /var/yp/Makefile, and a properly setup aliases file.
See below for details. I hope it works for you!
Mike Jenkins
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The rule added right after S22:
S22
R$- $:$>3${Z$1$} user
...
The /var/yp/Makefile changes at aliases.time:
...
rm $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.aliases;
#
# Build my own mail.byaddr wiping out existing mail.byaddr
#
@(egrep '^[A-Z][a-z]*\.[A-Z][a-z]*:' $(DIR)/aliases $(CHKPIPE))\
|( sed -e 's/:/ /' -e 's/@themailhost//' -e 's/,/ /' $(CHKPIPE))\
|( awk '{print $$2,$$1}' $(CHKPIPE))\
| $(MAKEDBM) - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/mail.byaddr;
#
...
The aliases file:
joe: joe@themailhost
Joe.Smith: joe@themailhost
sue: sue@herclient
Sue.Allen: sue@herclient, sue@elsewhere
The mail.byaddr built from aliases file:
Key Value
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joe Joe.Smith
sue@herclient Sue.Allen
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