On Fri, 11 May 2001 08:54:17 -0800, Mark on GCI Server wrote:
>Where exactly does the qpopper pull the domain name information. Does it
>pull from active zones in the DNS, or from the setup of sendmail? Currently,
>the domain name on my mail server includes the hostname, and I don't want
>the hostname in the mail addresses that I set up for my users.
Qpopper has no need to know its hostname. It just feeds from the local
mailspool.
The mail address of your users is only relevant to those who send mail
to your users and to the system used to route mail to them. If your MTA
is sendmail, you need to add the domain name you want to use to
/etc/mail/local-host-names. This tells sendmail that it should accept
mail for that domain. You'll need to create a DNS record like
"desired-domainname MX 0 mail-host-name". This tells others that mail
for user@desired-domainname should be delivered to mail-host-name.
BTW, please put something more informative in the subject line. Some of
us scan hundreds of messages a day and are likely to skip a message
with a boring subject line. You'll get a better response if you "sell"
your question a bit.
Ken
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http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
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