Frank - I am sending to my local names okay now, and my outgoing mail is going out too, but it contains an incorrect "from" address. If you will notice it says "hudson.mhonline.net" and ought to say only "mhonline.net". The name "hudson" is what I specified as my hostname when I ran netconfig, and "mhonline.net" is what I specified as the domain name That happens to be what my ISP uses as its domain. But adding the "hudson" creates an illegal return address... I used to have pine create the proper outgoing address, but if I put that back in it screws up my local deliveries. Catch 22. I have to ask sendmail to ignore the "hudson" part of "hudson.mhonline.net". Any idea how to do that? Chuck On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote: > Hello Chuck Janina and all > > Janina I don't think that is the answer at all. First of all what mailer > are you using Janina? Chuck you are using sendmail correct? > > in your sendmail.cf 'in slack 7.1 now in /etc/mail' previously in /etc > make sure that > Cwlocalhost > #Dj > CP. > DS"your-isp's-smtpserver" > > This is the real ticket. It should work so that your sendmail gathers > mail for you localy and delivers it to the smart host with out > bouncing. In theory this works. I actually did this for six months when > I was using dialup. This should allow you to have a different hostname in > your /etc/HOSTNAME file then what you actually would have when > connected. Janina's situation is a little funny. Because your ISP blocks > port 25 you have to change your smarthost 'DS' evrytime you change from > uu.net dialup to being connected in the office. Not fun at all! Right at > this moment I can't think of a way around this. Blame the people who > block the damn ports. What bastards! > > CO @ % > C.. > C[[ > > > For the most par these should work for you. There may be a few other > things I am missing but for now this is all I can see that will make this > work. > > HTH > Frank > > > Frank Carmickle > phone: 412 761-9568 > email: frankiec at dryrose.com > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Try sending a message to root. If that works, specifying users in class l > > shgould work too. > > > > The more I think about this, the more I think defining a hostname--a fully > > qualified hostname is the real answer. > > > > > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > > Ummm - not so fast. Using Pine to send local mail via sendmail seemed to > > > work fine at first, but in fact it only worked if I was connected to my > > > ISP. The mail did not go to my ISP, or if it did it came right back > > > without fetchmail, but I had to be connected for it to work anyway. When I > > > forced a hangup and did not activate demand dialing, my local mail thing > > > with pine failed. So - back to the drawing boards. > > > Chuck > > > > > > > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (69% of Full) > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (70% of Full)
