On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a home machine on which I would like to send mail to local users as
well as the Internet (when a PPP link is up). I used to do this by telling
smailconfig that I am an Internet site with visible name primenet.com
(my Internet Service Provider's domainname).
I use the visible name now, I have tried in the past to use 'psu.edu' as my
domain (or some similar setting) and brando as the 'hostname'... Which was a
mistake My ISP (Penn State Univ. PA, USA) started trying to route
messages through my machine. Only a few, when the user misconfigured
their mailer... The messages got stuck in a loop on my machine, and built up
header info for a while till they died in transport.
This produced from fields like localuser@primenet.com, which is great for
me ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is my account with my ISP) but not so hot for my
wife ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is not an actual account) or for root
([EMAIL PROTECTED] is not the right account). I fixed this by adding
from_field=From: Matt Birkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to the end of /etc/smail/config.
After upgrading to Debian 1.1beta (smail 3.1.29.1-22), this arrangement
does not work. The from_field setting seems to be ignored. All of my mail
is From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dagobah being my local hostname).
Am I the only person who was / is trying to do this? Has anyone succeeded?
I think I'm set up this way, but I did not get the setup from anywhere, it
does seem to work though.
Matt Birkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key ID = 74305425
Key Fingerprint = B3 34 FB 3E 3C FE E8 57 AA B4 B2 95 A7 C0 1E AF
My latest attempt to 'stabilize' stuff: I use a script to check my mail, an
I just put code in to not download mail while 'pine' is up... Otherwise
everyone (might) have their hands in the mailbag at once. I don't know if
this is necessary.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey guys, I just heard something that really worries me...
(wringing hands) What is the correct side of the bed to get up on?
