[linux-help] Re: Mail Address Masq

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Steven Saner
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:06 PM
> To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: Mail Address Masq
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:56:23PM -0600, Nathan wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there's a way to masquerade email
> > addresses.  Could an MTA do it with aliases somehow?
> >
> > I want to register my own domain name and have email
> > going to that domain be sent to my ISP's POP3.
> >
> > People would send mail to nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
> > Somehow the To: block needs to be rewritten to be
> > nathan@my_isp.com
>
>
> Not sure I follow what you are after. If you have mail for your domain
> delivered to your ISP, then your ISP is going to have to configure
> their mail server to accept mail sent to your domain and put it in
> your mail box. This is a fairly common procedure and does not require
> the rewriting of the To: header in any way. When you pop your mail
> from the ISP you will see the original nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in the
> headers. With sendmail this is typically done by creating an entry in
> the virtusertable file, which maps addresses at some domain to a local
> POP account.
>
> Steve
>

What Steve proposes is the simplest solution, though your ISP may not want
to do this or may want too much $$$ to do this.  The alternatives are to
find somebody that offer virtual mail services at little or no cost, or to
just set your reply to: address to your isp.  That will work as long as
everyone uses the rely to: address instead of the from: address. This is not
guaranteed, however.

--dwh

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