Well, I don't know what distribution you are using, but...
If you are using KDE, kppp has an option which resets the hostname to
match your assigned IP address when you connect, then sets it back when
you disconnect. A friend of mine uses it and it solves this problem...
Simon Hill
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, David Smith wrote:
> I dial in through telesys and use netscape to check
> my mail.utexas.edu account. But I want to be able
> to mail people off the command line, say
> with '# mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file'. I can't
> do this because sendmail isn't set up as a mailserver, and
> I get errors when trying to talk to other mailservers:
>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to mail.utexas.edu.:
> >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=111
> <<< 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist
> 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data format error
>
> My home machine is called smith1, but it isn't listed
> in the nameservers b/c it's on a dialup connection.
> This error is from a script that I wrote to send my
> ip address to my mail account whenever it changes,
> so then I can ssh to my machine even tho' the
> ip's not static.
>
> How do I get the mailservers to recognize me?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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