"Samuel A. Mullen" wrote: > > First, because my mutt isn't doing replies well right now, I'm forced to > use Netscape Nausiator's mail client. A thousand appologies. > > I tried joining the AfterStep mailing list today (using mutt), but when > I did, my e-mail was bounced back because the domain on my email address > did not exist. > > I'm using mutt on my box (smullen.oppunl.com) however my email address > is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the mail server is running on oppunl.com). How > do I get mutt to use the correct domain name. setting hostname doesn't > seem to work. > > Below is the email I received back from the mailing list I mentioned > > Thanks, > Sam Header -------------------- >From smullen Thu Dec 16 15:15:17 1999 Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> Received: from localhost (localhost) by smullen.oppunl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with internal id PAA16085; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:15:17 -0600 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:15:17 -0600 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="PAA16085.945378917/smullen.oppunl.com" BODY ------------------------------ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] The original message was received at Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:14:53 -0600 from smullen@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to rim.caldera.com.: >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=289 <<< 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data format error [-- Attachment #2 --] [-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --] Reporting-MTA: dns; smullen.oppunl.com Arrival-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:14:53 -0600 Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.5.2 Remote-MTA: DNS; rim.caldera.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must +exist Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:15:17 -0600 [-- Attachment #3 --] [-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:14:53 -0600 From: "S Mullen oppunl.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: subscribe X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i subscribe AfterStep