Gottipati Aravind [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I tried to set the hostname part of my outgoing mails to
> "cc.usu.edu" instead of my comps name. I tried it using just plain set
> hostname="cc.usu.edu" but that does not do it. My emails still had my
> comps name. So I switched to set my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead.
> and that works just fine. My question now is whats the purpose of that
> hostname variable if it does not work? am I doing it wrong or do I need
> to set some other variable too.. to get it to work?
It doesn't affect your from address, it affects 'local' addresses you mail
to. ie, if you send a mail to 'foo' (as opposed to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.), and $use_domain is set, the address becomes foo@(value
of $hostname).
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