Knews receives articles wonderfully. However, whenever I try to reply to mail, I get the message "Domain name not available, posting will not be allowed!"
Of course, there is a domain-name problem of some sort. My domain-name should be something like "mnsinc.com". In the mail-user-agents of the mh lineage and in pine, I set my "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" address. In netscape's news handler, I do similarly. I see no way to set a "From:..." address for knews. This lack of a correct return (From) address I presume results in the above error message "Domain name not available". If I had a 24-hour ethernet connection, I would configure my system simply, placing the domain-name in /etc/hosts along with my permanent IP address. But like most home users, I have but a dynamic IP address, so I let my pppd startup handle domains with the "defaultdomain" option. I see no way to use the results of "defaultdomain" with knews, though this would solve my problem. I have but one entry in /etc/hosts, 127.0.0.1 rabbit localhost with the "rabbit" alias and no domain-name since for the majority of the time I am offline. I use no /etc/resolv.conf as my connections work wonderfully without it, and even better now that I have installed bind and consequently run named only during network connections with pppd. Once in a crazy mood, I wanted to make my networking more obvious, so I used 127.0.0.1 rabbit.dynamic-ppp-has-no-domain.home rabbit localhost but the odd domain cause problems, so I dropped that entry. While probably irrelevant, I am even more reluctant to set a domain-name since I might connect to either of two ISPs, with of course different domains. I feel, particularly for the home (often more naive) user, network configuration should be simple. Seeking this simplicity, I have left out the apparently unnecessary /etc/resolv.conf and have not added a line to the ip-up script that would copy a different /etc/hosts depending on the ISP I contact and whether my pppd is up/down. Such problems as this make me wish Debian Linux had more sanctioned software. As Debian sanctions smail/INN and makes sure smail/INN work easily/correctly, other sanctioned software could ease not just configuration, but spending hours deciding which software, eg, mail-user-agent, works well, then configuring it. Of course, such sanctioning would change often since the better software available in Debian changes often. As I say, all my networking works wonderfully, but I cannot get knews to create/respond-to news. Any ideas? -- Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." --William James, Varieties of Religious Experience -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .