setting the sender field (was Re: Smail Configuration)
I did a similar thing to get my smail working.
I use exmh/mh for email. My problem is that the sender field is set to
USER@FULLY_QUALIFIED_HOSTNAME(FQDN). The user is jmb (or whoever I'm logged
in as) and the hostname is achimota. The network I'm on (from my dial-up ISP)
is ziplink.net. My FQDN ends up as achimota.ziplink.net, which does not
resolve when a DNS lookup is done on it. As a result of this mail to some
domains gets rejected. If the FQDN does not resolve it is rejected because
maybe they think it is spam or something. Am I making any sense? I hope I
have explained the problem clearly. For example this is being sent from user
jmb on host nsx.rd.usr.com so the sender field in this message is going to
read as jmb@nsx.rd.usr.com, which is ok because nsx.rd.usr.com is a real host.
>From what I've been reading, the sender field is set by smail. Is there a
part in the smail config files where I can set the sender field to a real
value - one with a hostname that will resolve.
Thanks for any help
jmb
>On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:52:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, vaidhy@wwdg.com wrote:
>> > Hi ,
>> > I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please
>> > explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails
>> > from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very
>> > comfy with that. (I did look at the HOWTO, but can not make head or tail out of it)
>>
>> Hello Vaidhy,
>>
>> please press return evry 80 characters or so, netscape puts whole
>> paragraphs in a single line, thank you.
>>
>> Start smailconfig (maybe you need to provide option "--force") as root.
>>
>> Then choose option (1) Internet host. Answer the questions, it should be
>> pretty straightforward, but feel free to ask questions (I use exim, and
>> don't rmember the exact questions). The important thing is "smarthost",
>> which should be YES and set to your SMTP host name.
>>
>> You are done.
>>
>
>I ran into a slight problem using that config with smail. Perhaps I
>just didn't answer the questions properly? My config file ended up
>with a visible host name of worldnetla.net (my ISP domain), which was
>ok. The hosts line ended up "worldnetla.net, sales.mmi.bus" which was
>not ok. (sales.mmi.bus is local host name, not registered). The
>line for additional (more?) hostnames had "localhost". Result was
>I could send email to anybody as long as they were not in my ISP
>domain. Smail tried to deliver mail to my ISP domain locally.
>
>Solution (maybe not politically correct, but it works): deleted the
>line for more hostnames, changed line for hosts to "localhost", and
>it started working correctly. I don't remember the actual config
>tags for these lines (running sendmail now) but they are at the top
>of the generated config file.
>
>Mike
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