Thusly Thwacked By Schoppitsch Dieter:
> Hi,
> what is going wrong?
>
> Dialing in to my ISP (with pppd) and fetching mails (with fetchmail) works well.
> But then I get the message "SMPT connect to localhost failed" respectively (using
>fetchmail -S hostname)
> "This message is MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand".
>
> * Where can I see/set my local smtphostname (or should I set my domainname)?
> * Sending myself a mail (with mutt) doesn't work - which address should I use (root
>or root@hostname doesn't work)?
If you host domain and email domain are different, you can set
the email domain in your ~/.muttrc with
set hostname=home.com
In Fetchmail, you can set a specific domain for your email
username with
smtpaddress home.com
so, a .fetchmailrc might look like:
poll mailserver.isp.com with proto POP3
user jcoppock
password ****** is jcoppock
smtpaddress home.com
which (I think) means [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] locally.
jc
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Major Accts. Santa Clara, CA
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