> > 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.
Actually, it does, but it was setup during install. ;-P
> > 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.
You'll *only* need it if your pulling data via fetchmail. Featchmail
*may* not require it, but I've never attempted to have fetchmail *NOT* use
it..
> > > 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 ?
Well, either what Brian said, or simply tell pppd (you said yer dialing
up, right?) to assign the hostname to the one given by the ppp server. I
*BELIEVE* that the option is like 'usehostname', but you'll want to look it
up to make sure..
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