Re: Pine and sendmail (further news)

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:29:53PM -0000, Richard wrote:
> Jose
> 
> >  "#Smart relay host (may be null)
> >  #DS" (the "" are mine)
> >  and change it it to
> >  DSmail.zetnet.co.uk
> 
> Tried it and it doesn't work :-(

	I assumed that mail.zetnet.co.uk was your relay host. BTW,
zetnet.co.uk seem to be using debian or is it me getting confused with
the headers?

	Anyway, what do you mean "it doesn't work" be a bit more
specific. What are your messages in /var/log? You should be getting some
errors and linux is good at producing error messages.

>  I don't let the MTA do this, I let the MUA do it
> > (using the Reply-To: field), but...
> >  Look for #who I masquerade as [...], and change the next line to
> >  DMzetnet.co.uk
> 
> This part of it lost me altogether :-)

	Basically, it's saying that this is a little filter that changes
the direction of your e-mail to that of your ISP's server. I don't think
you need to understand the why, but otherwise all e-mail would be
delivered with your home computers name and your username there. You
want it to go out with your ISP's email account details in it. Sendmail
will do it for you, but according to the relevant RFC, it's a MUA issue,
not an MTA issue. But that shouldn't be much of a problem.


-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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