[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I saw a suggestion to use someething like "@home.net" for local users. > The MUA's I've seen try to qualify the username and that dummy address > might be the thing to use. Please send your suggestions, or I'll post > if I get things improved a little more. > This was my suggestion. This is *no* dummy address. This is a perfectly legal domain for you intranet. If you have only one computer, let's call it a "net" anyway. My first suggestion was home.net, but let me correct this:
Consider the case that you have no connection to the internet and only have a intranet with a couple of hosts. Then you have to specify a domainname and hostnames for the computers. Now you chose a domain for the intranet. Let it be "home.koeln". You have three hosts named "basement", "office" and "entry". (FYI: koeln is the city where I live.) I have chosen a not-existent topleveldomain, so that there won't be any trouble if there is (or will be) a legal home.net domain and you connect to the internet. Now setup /etc/hosts on the three hosts, so that they can resolve the names. You could also set up a DNS Server for your home.koeln domain. So you can send mail between the three systems and of cause between the users on each host. You now decide, that entry.home.koeln gets a modem to make a connection to the internet. On dialin, entry gets an additional IP address and host+domainame from your ISP. Entry is part of *two* domains. So if you send mail from basement to a) user it is delivered locally (pine will expand this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) b) [EMAIL PROTECTED] will work as before. c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be forwarded to your ISP's mailserver (if you chose a smarthost) or delivered directly by entry. Read more about this in the "Networkadministrator's Guide" at the Linux Documentation Project homepage. For your case, you have to reduce this explanation to one host, but the principle is the same. And maybe you will have more then one box someday. You may want to browse the december archive of debian-user for some articles about how to change your hostname and domain (you have to change multiple files and I have never done this, so I don't know which :-) ) Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .