I did a similar thing to get my smail working. I use exmh/mh for email. My problem is that the sender field is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED](FQDN). The user is jmb (or whoever I'm logged in as) and the hostname is achimota. The network I'm on (from my dial-up ISP) is ziplink.net. My FQDN ends up as achimota.ziplink.net, which does not resolve when a DNS lookup is done on it. As a result of this mail to some domains gets rejected. If the FQDN does not resolve it is rejected because maybe they think it is spam or something. Am I making any sense? I hope I have explained the problem clearly. For example this is being sent from user jmb on host nsx.rd.usr.com so the sender field in this message is going to read as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is ok because nsx.rd.usr.com is a real host. >From what I've been reading, the sender field is set by smail. Is there a part in the smail config files where I can set the sender field to a real value - one with a hostname that will resolve. Thanks for any help
jmb >On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:52:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Hi , >> > I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please >> > explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails >> > from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very >> > comfy with that. (I did look at the HOWTO, but can not make head or tail >> > out of it) >> >> Hello Vaidhy, >> >> please press return evry 80 characters or so, netscape puts whole >> paragraphs in a single line, thank you. >> >> Start smailconfig (maybe you need to provide option "--force") as root. >> >> Then choose option (1) Internet host. Answer the questions, it should be >> pretty straightforward, but feel free to ask questions (I use exim, and >> don't rmember the exact questions). The important thing is "smarthost", >> which should be YES and set to your SMTP host name. >> >> You are done. >> > >I ran into a slight problem using that config with smail. Perhaps I >just didn't answer the questions properly? My config file ended up >with a visible host name of worldnetla.net (my ISP domain), which was >ok. The hosts line ended up "worldnetla.net, sales.mmi.bus" which was >not ok. (sales.mmi.bus is local host name, not registered). The >line for additional (more?) hostnames had "localhost". Result was >I could send email to anybody as long as they were not in my ISP >domain. Smail tried to deliver mail to my ISP domain locally. > >Solution (maybe not politically correct, but it works): deleted the >line for more hostnames, changed line for hosts to "localhost", and >it started working correctly. I don't remember the actual config >tags for these lines (running sendmail now) but they are at the top >of the generated config file. > >Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
