After reading and trying out many of the ideas I've seen here and elsewhere regarding smail configuration for dialup networking, I've decided to ask for some more help.
VISIBLE_NAME and PRIMARY_NAME are now ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ being set to u.washington.edu after PRIMARY_NAME=u.washington.edu properly configuring "hostnames" and VISIBLE_NAME=u.washington.edu "visible_name" in /etc/smail/config , ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Likewise, the Sender: field in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a mail to my isp account is ok Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] now, thanks: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moreover, I think I found the explanation as to why mails to my isp account have the correct hostname in the Sender: field while perusing "man smailtrns", although I'm not certain. My theory is that by setting visible_name to my isp's domain, the mail is considered "local" and there is no lookup with the dns. Ultimately, I have the problem with most non-local mail: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /var/log/smail/logfile) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Received FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HOST:localhost [127.0.0.1] [..] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And the response from my smarthost: ~~~~ From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (evil looking picon)~~~~~ |--------------------- Failed addresses follow: -------------------| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... transport smtprewriter: 550 '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>SIZE=724' sender address target 'localhost' is not a valid e-mail domain. |--------------------- Message text follows: ----------------------| Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost with esmtp (ident kotsya using rfc1413) id m0yBxrw-0001bOC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:25:08 -0800 [..] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Would someone with more experience in this area please advise me what I need to change to be able to use smail to send mail somewhere other than myself and this list? -- David Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .