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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Configuring Mail.app?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.173531.7608@seer.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <92325.165005U53076@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:35:31 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In article <92325.165005U53076@uicvm.uic.edu> <U53076@uicvm.uic.edu>
- writes:
- > Hi,
- > I'm trying to configure Mail.app to send and receive mail. I have a
- station
- > on a local non-netinfo network and the one machine that's hooked to the
- outside
- > world is not a NeXT. I can send and receive mail, but only with some
- bugs.
- > The bugs are as follows. When I send mail from the NeXT, my header
- doubles my
- > domain name (should be ludwig.pmad.uic.edu ; shows up as
- ludwig.pmad.uic.edu.pm
- > ad.uic.edu). Also, the only way I can receive mail is if I put my
- entire name
- > as the host name in NetManager. That is, if I put "ludwig" alone as the
- host
- > name in NetManager, then I get host name configuration errors when I try
- to
- > send mail to myself from another machine. If I put
- "ludwig.pmad.uic.edu" as
- > the hostname in NetManager, then I can receive mail, but my prompt in
- Terminal
- > shows up as "ludwig.pmad.uic.edu>". If the hostname is only "ludwig",
- the
- > header doubling and Terminal prompt problems go away, but I can't
- receive mail.
- >
- > What do I do?
- >
- > Do I need to create a mailhost with NetInfoManager?
- >
- > Which sendmail config file should I create a link to? Right now I have
- a
- > symbolic link from sendmail.mailhost.cf to sendmail.cf.
-
- It is best to use senmail.subsidiary.cf as your configuration file in your
- kind of situation. Define an alias for your mail provider's hostname,
- called mailhost, and it will be used to handle all locally unresolvable
- mail addresses. A similar situation can be solved using
- sensdmail.mailhost.cf if you need to: near the end of the file is a
- comment about 'pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder': do
- what it says.
-
- I changed the D macro at the start of the file to: Dj$w ; this prevents
- duplicating domain names in your address.
-
- I haven't seen the problem that you have had with receiving mail; you
- could probably define a hostname alias with that name for your local
- machine.
-
- Paul
- --
- Paul Lynch
- P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
- Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
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