Hi, I think others have answered the original question here... Geoff gives a more complete answer (below). What I'm doing is maybe cheating, but it works: I have my domain set in the .pinerc file in my home directory. In my case the domain is my virtual domain which I have pointing at my webpage on my ISP. The service (doamin direct) which provides the virtual domain redirection also provides me with a mailbox which is forwarded to my mail address on my ISP. I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail from the ISP's pop3 server and deliver it via exim, to my mailbox on my local machine. Doing it this way, I was able to choose the mailbox name on the virtual domain service to agree with my username on my local machine "terry". I only have to put the virtual domain in the .pinerc file to make it work. Here's my question to the gurus: Is this "kosher"? A couple of times, the ISP rejected an outgoing mail with an error message about invalid domain or something (Can't remember exactly what it was). IS my ISP being lenient in allowing it most all the time? or is it legal to do things this way? --terry You wrote: -=> Hi: -=> -=> I usually define my from address in pine using roles. This allows you to -=> have a list of from addresses to choose from, nice if you have local users -=> you want to be able to send mail to. Also, the domain thing is only any -=> good if your local and ISP user ID are the same, which they aren't for me -=> at least. -=> -=> Also note that, for some ISPs at least, setting your from address will not -=> be sufficient, you will have to configure your mail transport agent to put -=> this address in other header fields so that your ISP thinks it came from -=> them. -=> -=> Geoff. -=> -=> -=> -=> _______________________________________________ -=> Speakup mailing list -=> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca -=> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -=> Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (905)735-6127 E-mail: terry at wasagacottage.com WWW: www.wasagacottage.com
