On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:20:06PM +0530, Rishi Maker wrote:
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> Rishi was happy when ;-) Michael Hong wrote this on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:30:23AM
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> > 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
Why, would you want your ISP to be 127.0.0.2 ? Change that /etc/hosts
entry to the correct IP and you'll be fine.
Michael
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