On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: > Greetings... > > I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the > how-to" or "check the archives" but I have to post my question > anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. > > My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect > to the net via PPP. I use sendmail when I'm in text mode (which > honestly I prefer over X-Windows), and for months I've been trying > to figure out how (or if) I can make my sender address stop looking > like this: > > From: <my "real name" here as I set it when adding a user account> > <my user [EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Morpheus is, of course, my "hostname", or > what I named my computer.) >
I tried to do exactly this for a long time and never could get it to work right. About the time I figured it out how to do it, I discovered mutt, and never looked back. Since then, I've reinstalled sendmail, and I'm not sure if my solution works any more. The solution that I used (and that I'm about to try again, now that you've reminded me) is in the sendmail FAQ at http://www.sendmail.org/faq/ . I think it's question 3.2. The solution that I use now is mutt. It took me about a day to learn to appreciate mutt, and now I use it even when (if) I'm in X. HTH Rob -- I tried the clone syscall on me, but it didn't work. -- Mike Neuffer trying to fix a serious time problem