Rishi was happy when ;-) Michael Hong wrote this on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:30:23AM
-0400
> Glenn Bajana wrote:
> ...
> >I've ``set hostname=curly''. This only appears in the Mutt message-ids,
> >i.e., local mail I compose for tests shows in vi as glenn@curly, but
> >when received it appears as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local emails
> >(in Mail as well as Mutt) show localhost.localdomain in the message-ids.
> ...
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you need to setup masquerading for sendmail as previously
> suggested but if you want the headers to show glenn@curly and
> curly.localdomain instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> localhost.localdomain you could try putting this in /etc/HOSTNAME:
>
> curly.localdomain
>
> and in /etc/hosts put:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.0.2 curly.localdomain curly
This is fine with me and works to send the mails to the previous nonresponsive domains
but it has created a problem now i cant poll my ISP which is bom7.vsnl.net.in
and defined in my /etc/hosts file as 127.0.0.2
so i have to poll at the IP address. No problem but the entire setup looks ugly
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Michael
>
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