On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Brian Chabot wrote:
> 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.
I believe that. My mail comes straight from tiac, and the string "grumpers"
pretty much never has anything to do with anything. Kinda like the fact that
my wife's winblows machine doesn't seem to need a name at all.
>
> 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?
Don't know. I'd be glad to be rid of it, although we're thinking of getting
ADSL which will change all the rules. Meanwhiille I'll go to etc/rc3.d and
take that puppy out.
> > 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. >
Ah HA !! I knew my IP changed everytime I connected. How can I find out what
my host name is ?
>
> 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...
>
My goal is to understand how this works at a level that will allow me to defend
myself against Microsoft. Nuff sed.
> 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....
So are you saying that all I need is an MUA and I don't need an MTA ?
I'm editting now.
>
>
>
> Brian
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