question about mail

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On 10/27/03  9:27 AM -0600, Vortek, Eater of Souls! wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I have a quick question about the mail program.
> Yes yes, I know, old, outdated, and practically useless. <smile>

Mail can actually be pretty useful in scripts and the like, but that's
neither here nor there.

> Unfortunately, some of my more...lazy?...users seem to like it.
> My question is, how do I get the domain name in outbound mail to say
> the-bofh.com, and not valhalla.the-bofh.com when someone writes a new
> message.

What you want might be more easily accomplished with a rewrite rule in
your MTA.

> Although this isn't a problem with my dns setup, I'd just like to have
> all emails, wether they be sent from pine, mutt, elm, or whatever, to
> have the same domain name.
> Mail is the only one I can't get to do this.

I don't know that it makes a difference but which mail are you using? I
have only dealt with the one from GNU's mailutils. It still seems like
it would be easier to set this in the MTA rather than all the MUAs.

- -- 
Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
carefully than others.
Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
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