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Postfix masquerading or changing outgoing SMTP email or mail address

#Postfix masquerading or changing outgoing SMTP email or mail address via http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-masquerade-change-email-mail-address.html

Address rewriting allows changing outgoing email ID or domain name itself. This is good for hiding internal user names. For example: SMTP user: tom-01 EMAIL ID: [email protected] Server name: server01.hosting.com

However when tom-01 send an email from shell prompt or using php it looks like it was send from [email protected]

In some cases internal hosts have no valid Internet domain name, and instead use a name such as localdomain.local or something else. This can be a problem when you want to send mail over the Internet, because many mail servers reject mail addresses with invalid domain names to avoid spam.

Postfix MTA offers smtp_generic_maps parameter. You can specify lookup tables that replace local mail addresses by valid Internet addresses when mail leaves the machine via SMTP.

Open your main.cf file

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

Append following parameter

smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic

Save and close the file. Open /etc/postfix/generic file:

vi /etc/postfix/generic

Make sure [email protected] change to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Save and close the file. Create or update generic postfix table:

postmap /etc/postfix/generic

Restart postfix:

service postfix restart

When mail is sent to a remote host via SMTP this replaces [email protected] by [email protected] mail address. You can use this trick to replace address with your ISP address if you are connected via local SMTP.

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