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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!philica!geertj
- From: geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot)
- Subject: Re: Configuring mh for mail from 'inside' the domain (FIXED)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.205408.8490@ica.philips.nl>
- Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Dec21.225551.18169@ica.philips.nl>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:54:08 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- I wrote:
- >When I send mail, it seems to come from 'geertj@filter', or, after adding
- >localdomain in ~mh/lib/mtstailor, from 'geertj@filter.ica.philips.nl'.
- >However, I want it to come from 'geertj@ica.philips.nl', i.e. from inside
- >the domain, without hostname.
-
- >I remember doing some very ugly surgery in mh6.7, and I hope there is a
- >cleaner way. I studied the (thousands of) options, but so far have not found
- >the right knob to twist. Is there an easy way?
-
- I received several answers, all pointing to 'localname'. I hope Jim won't
- mind that I quote his answer:
-
- >try this:
- > localname: ica.philips.nl
- >in the lib/mtstailor file.
- >
- >Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, aultj@rpi.edu <><
-
- That works PERFECT! From the responses I got, I found that more people
- were struggling; I hope this helps them too. Jim, thanks!
-
- Season's greetings,
-
- Geert Jan
-
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