> 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 > I Am not sure I understand your problem correctly, but if I do then the following, especialy /etc/smail/transport and /etc/smail/maps/frommap, might help:
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