On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: > robert havoc pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A local expert tells me that bounced mail doesn't go to the From: address > > but to some other thing set by the MTA. I've tried sending mail to bad > > addresses and I get nothing back. So something's wrong. > > Perhaps you need to set visible_name to pobox.com, assuming that's the dialup > ISP you're using. My understanding, for what it's worth, is that smail will > default to your machine's name in lieu of a visible_name value. >
Hmm, pobox.com isn't the dialup, unfortunately. It's just an alias service, not an ISP. > Check the archives of this list for this month and last month. There's been a > tremendous amount of discussion of all this stuff. > Is there any way to search the archives? Given their size, going through them by hand is a little tricky. I've been reading this list for a while though and don't remember a solution to this problem. Everything assumes either static IP address, email address == domain, using Pine, or something else like that... Thanks for the help though! Havoc Pennington -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
