Re: exmh questions become exmh questions
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org writes:
> I saw a suggestion to use someething like "@home.net" for local users.
> The MUA's I've seen try to qualify the username and that dummy address
> might be the thing to use. Please send your suggestions, or I'll post
> if I get things improved a little more.
>
This was my suggestion. This is *no* dummy address. This is a perfectly
legal domain for you intranet. If you have only one computer, let's call it
a "net" anyway. My first suggestion was home.net, but let me correct this:
Consider the case that you have no connection to the internet and only have
a intranet with a couple of hosts.
Then you have to specify a domainname and hostnames for the computers.
Now you chose a domain for the intranet. Let it be "home.koeln". You have
three hosts named "basement", "office" and "entry". (FYI: koeln is the city
where I live.)
I have chosen a not-existent topleveldomain, so that there won't be any
trouble if there is (or will be) a legal home.net domain and you connect to
the internet.
Now setup /etc/hosts on the three hosts, so that they can resolve the names.
You could also set up a DNS Server for your home.koeln domain.
So you can send mail between the three systems and of cause between the
users on each host.
You now decide, that entry.home.koeln gets a modem to make a connection to
the internet. On dialin, entry gets an additional IP address and
host+domainame from your ISP. Entry is part of *two* domains.
So if you send mail from basement to
a) user
it is delivered locally (pine will expand this to
user@entry.home.koeln )
b) user@office.home.koeln
will work as before.
c) user@some.internet.domain
will be forwarded to your ISP's mailserver (if you chose a
smarthost) or delivered directly by entry.
Read more about this in the "Networkadministrator's Guide" at the Linux
Documentation Project homepage.
For your case, you have to reduce this explanation to one host, but the
principle is the same. And maybe you will have more then one box someday.
You may want to browse the december archive of debian-user for some articles
about how to change your hostname and domain (you have to change multiple
files and I have never done this, so I don't know which :-) )
Ciao,
Martin
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