On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, The BitSurfer wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Satya wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm satyap.myip.org. How would you set that up? Like, is my hostname
> > satyap (which makes mail from here look like @satyap.org) or is it
> > satyap.myip?
>
> You'd be satyap.myip.org. I use bits.myip.org (my dyndns.org stopped
> working) and it works fine. I still have a problem with pine, which writes
> my from line as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the reply-to is written with my
> real email, so it just about works.
I've been having this same problem at the office. I use a proxy machine
to get to the net. No machine on my network has a resolvable domain name,
so everything has to be ip addresses only.
My smarthost has to be the proxy machine and not bom2 or anything else. I
had a lot of trouble sending mail to vsnl as they do not accept mail from
domains that do not exist. (My smtp server is not vsnl).
Another problem is that many people in the company do not have company
email addresses. Some have yahoo addresses, others have usa.net, I have
vsnl. I can use fetchmail for yahoo and vsnl and namg for netaddress, but
couldn't send mail correctly. It would go from
<localuser>@<localhost>.<localdomain> which wasn't resolvable.
I finally wrote a script (yes in perl) that sits in place of sendmail. It
calls sendmail, but first rewrites all from lines to reflect the correct
email addresses of the users. I use a file called outgoing.aliases that I
keep in /etc/mail
It is in the format:
localemailaddress:realemailaddress
one per line
I'll put it up tomorrow if I'm sure it works well. You can use it, but
beware that this would probably cause weird problems with anything using
sendmail for smtp (rather than writing to sendmail -t directly).
A better idea would be to set this program as sendmail-path in pine.
If anybody's interested, it will come up tomorrow.
Philip
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