Solution to: not able to post to debian-user list
Victor Torrico wrote:
>
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> >
> > > Dale,
> > >
> > > My eMail From: line reads "Victor Torrico <root@cfw.com>". What
> > > file/files do I change to make it read the correct info which is:
> > > "Victor Torrico <vtorrico@cfw.com>"?
> >
> > This is probably because you are logged in as root when you sent the
> > e-mail. This is a no-no...
> > Create a user account on your machine for vtorrico and use it to send your
> > mail. It looks like you have user-domain set properly (the site address is
> > correct), but don't forget to get your configuration set up for the user
> > account as well.
> >
>
> Good show. This may be why I couldn't post to the list using Netscape
> since I was also running this as root. I'm trying a test post now with
> Netscape after adduser set up vtorrico. Will advise you if this was the
> answer to not being able to post to the list.
Heigh Dee Ho ! Would you beleive that I can post to the list now.
Perhaps others may be having a similar problem. Running Netscape 3.01 as
root definitely caused the problem.
Cheers,
Victor
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