Hi Chuck. Sorry I ran off yesterday. I think the best solution for you is to use roles in pine. and DS should be with out quotes. The bloody send.cf file is just amazing. I haven't moved to exim on this box yet but I am going to very soon. Sort of waiting for a new disk and slack7.2 to come out. Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi gang - > > Here is what I am going to do - it is ugly but it works! > > 1. I have two pine configurations. My original one is chock full of > references to my ISP and is called ".pinerc". It stays unmodified. > > 2. The other pine configuration has all those references removed, and I > called it ".local" - it doesn't matter much what I call it. > > 3. I defined an alias in my .profile as follows: > > alias local="pine -p .local" > > 4. I put the user names of other user accounts into my pine addressbook as > nicknames, with an email address of "username at localhost". > > 5. To send mail to the outside world I invoke pine as usual. To send mail > locally to another user account without requiring a link to my ISP I > invoke it with the command "local". > > And it works. > > Now if I can only remember it when I need it I will be in business. > > BTW only one of my user accounts has an associated email address, so this > need only be done in that account. The others can only send mail to each > other and to the primary user account but not to the outside world. I only > have a single pine configuration in those accounts, stripped of ISP > references. They can use Lynx and FTP okay but email is limited to the set > of local users. > > I don't like this, but it is workable. It leaves another problem > unresolved - namely, when I send an email message from within Lynx, I > still get the same poorly formed return address as I would from pine > without its configured references to my ISP. I assume Lynx uses sendmail > and relies on it to form the return address, and it is not being done > correctly - it is including the hostname as well as the domain name, where > it should only use the comain name. > > I am tired - I think I will turn in and get ready for the two foot > snowfall we are expecting here in the next 36 hours or so... > > Thanks for all your help. The problem is not yet solved, but it is > successfully avoided, which is sometimes the same thing! > > Cheers - Chuck > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (71% of Full) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >