Re: smail set-up

[Obi <graziano@cs.ucsd.edu>]

Hi,

I'm using smail on a laptop, and I came from sendmail :-). I'm using hamm.

> 1. change the name of any outgoing mail to another username (i.e. 
> root@debian.telconnect.com> to roark@telconnect.com)

I used the visible_name option in config. Actually you can set it up throught
the configuration script (smailconfig): after the first question (which I
answered 1 -- Internet site), it asks you for the visible name. You should
them put telnetconnect.com.

> 2. be able to send mail from my laptop to accounts on the main 
> telconnect.com server.

That's the smarthost. Smailconfig will ask you that later on ...

> As it stands now, every message goes out as root and I can't send mail to 
> anyone in my office - it keeps telling me the user does not exist (by 
> looking at my own /etc/passwd file).

I got rid of my domain name from the hostnamed in the config file
(/etc/smail/config) because my machine was trying to deliver locally all the
mail. After that everythign worked ok.

> Any ideas?

Hope this helps,
graziano
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