From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: A few misc questions, and a thank you Date: 1 Jan 1993 14:23:36 GMT
ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter) writes:
>Question/Problem #3: After much hair pulling, I got mail all together on
> my system, however when I try responding to a
> piece of mail through elm, the mailer has a fit
> unless I manually edit the TO field, which elm
> always puts '@linux.sea.wa.us' at the end of,
> anyway to tell elm that I am not on any kind of
> network, and that it should ignore that?
I can answer that one since I'm responsible :-)
elm as distributed in SLS0.98-5 and later is compiled to 'domainize'
your mail and to put `hostname`@domain.name in the headers. It can
calculate the hostname via the 'hostname' command, but something has
to be hardcoded into the domain for compilation...so for lack of anything
better I used my domain.
you need to set your hostname in the /etc/rc file. Since you say it
reports 'linux', you apparently haven't done so.
There's also supposed to be a README file in /usr/local/lib/mail that
describes that you need to edit your /usr/lib/domains file (forgive
me if I get the path wrong...it might be /usr/local/lib/elm/domains)
and put your domain name in there. that'll override the compiled-in
domain so your headers are correct.
(note...for people who've jumped ahead to elm2.4, you do that in the
global elm.rc file as of v2.4)
also, you should set your visible_name in the /usr/local/lib/smail/config
file to indicate the host.domain you want shown in your outgoing mail.
There's supposed to be a readme file in /usr/local/lib/smail also.
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