I purchased a Debian Woody (Unofficial) distro from Edmunds Enterprises and installed it. It seems OK except I'm having a lot of trouble with default configurations for communicating with the outside world. I've already posted some questions (can't telnet in, the Mail transfer agent which I think is sendmail, at least sendmail is running, doesn't seem to want to play nice with fetchmail, and now this. I'm afraid I don't know much about these kinds of configuration issues. I still have the telnet and mail problems and will have to drop debian if I can't resolve them. I've been using linux since 1994, mostly using slackware and somehow managed to get along knowing these configuration items until now.
Anyway, here's my latest- When I try to post a message using emacs gnus, it produces a 'From' line that gnus doesn't like. Does anyone know how I can change that? The exact complaint, in the little bar at the bottom of gnus is: Denied posting -- the From looks strange: "Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Here is an exact example of a message I tried to post: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.test.test Subject: ignore this test using debian From: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Date: 21 May 2002 08:06:27 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 5 --text follows this line-- THis is a test of how gnus works with debian that is all. -- Replace ragwind.loc or bluemouth.loc with rahul for my real email address -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
