Re: Pine and sendmail (further news)

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

mail.zetnet.co.uk & relay.zetnet.co.uk return different ip addresses on
ping, so are probably seperate entities. Since Richard gets an smtp fail
trying to send mail to mail.zetblah.... it's likely that the relay host
must
be addressed specifically.  

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1]
José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 

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