[geeks] Sendmail question

[Scott Howard]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:42:44PM +0100, Joacim Melin wrote:
> I'm doing a transfer from an MS Exchange Server 2000-installation to 
> Linux and sendmail. (don't think I have to explain why... :) )
> 
> Have one question though : is it possible for sendmail to act as 
> another hostname ?  My network is setup so that I only got one fixed 
> public IP-address and I can't take down the exchange server until this 
> new server is up, and I'd hate to name the new email server the same 
> name as the old exchange server.
> 
> The fixed IP-address is registered to a specific hostname and my guess 
> is that there will be trouble if the name in the DNS is dogbert and the 
> new mailserver is named dilbert.. or whatever.

No, sendmail doesn't care what the domain name is set to - as long as
you've told it what domains to accept mail for (using Cw or Fw) and what
domain to send mail as (using DM)

  Scott