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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: A few misc questions, and a thank you
- References: <1hvu3lINNpbc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:23:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.142336.1829@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter) writes:
-
-
- >Question/Problem #3: After much hair pulling, I got mail all together on
- > my system, however when I try responding to a
- > piece of mail through elm, the mailer has a fit
- > unless I manually edit the TO field, which elm
- > always puts '@linux.sea.wa.us' at the end of,
- > anyway to tell elm that I am not on any kind of
- > network, and that it should ignore that?
-
- I can answer that one since I'm responsible :-)
-
- elm as distributed in SLS0.98-5 and later is compiled to 'domainize'
- your mail and to put `hostname`@domain.name in the headers. It can
- calculate the hostname via the 'hostname' command, but something has
- to be hardcoded into the domain for compilation...so for lack of anything
- better I used my domain.
-
- you need to set your hostname in the /etc/rc file. Since you say it
- reports 'linux', you apparently haven't done so.
-
- There's also supposed to be a README file in /usr/local/lib/mail that
- describes that you need to edit your /usr/lib/domains file (forgive
- me if I get the path wrong...it might be /usr/local/lib/elm/domains)
- and put your domain name in there. that'll override the compiled-in
- domain so your headers are correct.
-
- (note...for people who've jumped ahead to elm2.4, you do that in the
- global elm.rc file as of v2.4)
-
- also, you should set your visible_name in the /usr/local/lib/smail/config
- file to indicate the host.domain you want shown in your outgoing mail.
- There's supposed to be a readme file in /usr/local/lib/smail also.
-
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