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Old 01-02-2003
Sendmail send wrong Name?!

Ok thats the Problem:
I'm logged in as user "cypher" on my FreeBSD 4.7 and sendmail worked fine but wenn i try to send an EMail as "tobi@provider.org" the mail arrive as "cypher@provider.org". I configured Sendmail with

genericstable "cypher tobi@provider.org"
virtusertable "tobi@provider.org cypher".

Fetchmail works too, i can fetch all mails from provider.org. I used only the command line tool "mail -v -s Test account@gmx.net"

Does anybody knows a solution?!
# 2  
Old 01-02-2003
Ok wait. I played around a little bit and when i make
"sendmail -v -t" without a "From:" the message is delivered as "Tobias <cypher@provider.org>". But wenn i send it with the "From: tobi@provider.org" it is delivered as "tobi@provider.org".

So ...is it Standard that i must specify the "From"? I thought because of this i made the genericstable and the virtusertable??? Is there a way to send it standardly as "Tobias <tobi@provider.org>"?
# 3  
Old 01-02-2003
yeah you got it. basically you can send mail from your server, and make it look like it came from anyone or place you want, thats one of this big problems with open relays and spammers.
# 4  
Old 01-03-2003
I know this "fake" problem, but the account from my provider isn't free. I pay money and got passwords for the accounts. So i think it isn't really an open relay?
 
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