What excellent timing for this thread; I also am trying to set up smail-to-SMTP-via-PPP for outgoing mail. I have a linux box called "mars" with accounts "root", "vielo", "val", etc. (They're all me, but I login under different names sometimes.) I have an account "vielo" at an ISP called "wolfenet.com", which has an SMTP server available.
I want all outgoing mail to be addressed as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], no matter which account on mars it originates from. I have smail's visible_name variable set to "wolfenet.com", but how do I tell smail what my login over there is? I don't want smail combining my local login name with the remote hostname and sending out mail with From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which doesn't exist) or From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which would get my ISP angry). Ordinarily I would just work by trial-and-error, but in this case I don't want to inconvenience other people over a faulty mail configuration. Can the SMTP server automatically supply the login field based on which account I'm PPP'ing through? PS. So far I've sent two messages out: one to the Linux counter during smailconfig, and one to myself (to my ISP address). Both of them disappeared into the bit bucket (they didn't get delivered and they didn't bounce). ############################################################################ # Mike Orr 1405 NE 56th Street, Seattle, WA 98105 USA # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (206) 522-9627 # # Email me in english/russki/deutsch/espanol/esperanto. # ############################################################################
