I might be able to help... I used to be a senior support tech at TIAC
till PSI bought them out and laid us off...
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> I've lived with the classic "sendmail hangs for 3 minutes at boot" for long
> enough. I've read the FAQs. I've searched the net. The problem is simple,
> I don't know several things my ISP won't tell me and I don't understand email
> well enough to figure this out myself. For example, the notion of "my domain".
> What's that ? My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I know my
> computer has a name "grumpers". But I'd bet breakfast that email to any address
> containing the string "grumpers" would bounce.
gumpers is what you called your computer I presume. Unless it is the
host name of your IP, it has pretty much nothing to do with your email
address as it's set up now.
If you are using fetchmail with sendmail and [EMAIL PROTECTED] as your
email address, then your domain is tiac.net
If you're not, you might want to think about it... <g>
> If any of you are email/TCP gurus and would like to help, please send an email
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (And if you you need a smiley after that, your
> as hurtin' as I am).
LOL... From your headers, it looks like you're using TIAC/PSI's SMTP
server to send your email out, rather than your linux box. Do you
really need sendmail running?
Unless you were grandfathered in when TIAC still offered static IP's,
both your actual hostname and IP will change each time you log in.
What are you using for an email client? In pine, fetchmail is
definitely your friend. If you're using a gui pop client, you probably
need neither sendmail nor fetchmail...
If you want, I think I still have a static IP account there that they
probably forgot about....
> I know this is a simple configuration thing, but I can't get it right. My
> stack of yet to read O'Reilly books is growing faster than kudzu in July and
> the TCP book is deep in the stack. I've got a single malt for the answer to
> this one.
Mmmm.... single malt....
Brian
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