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- From: tbouchar@ptialaska.net (Troy Bouchard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: THOR EMAIL
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 02:29:45 GMT
- Organization: Digital Gateway Systems
- Message-ID: <1779.6573T976T570@ptialaska.net>
- References: <1484.6572T1223T1202@bart.nl>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: kodiak_20.dialups.ptialaska.net
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
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- On 30-Dec-95 19:37:41 Job Hanssen you wrote:
- >>>I am having a small problem using THOR EMAIL. Whenever I try and send
- >>>EMAIL
- >>>(conference defaults to EMAIL) I receive the following message:
-
- >>>Domain name missing, make sure the sochet. library config is correct.
-
- >>Hello Felix !
-
- >>As a first step, make sure you have the Mail_Server gadget filled in
- >>and the News_server gadget filled in in the Systems Configuration
- >>under the Type Options choices. (Go to system configuration and make
- >>sure your system you are using for internet mail is highlighted. Then
- >>click on the Type Options button and you will see a window with
- >>mailserver and newserver string gadgets in which you enter the name of
- >>your mailserver and newsserver. For example in my case these will read
- >>"pinc.com" and news.pinc.com".
-
- >>You also might check that the email address gadget in the email
- >>conference setting window is filled in.
-
- >>Hope this helps !
-
- >I had the very same problem, although I had the Mail_Server and
- >Systems_config filled in correctly.
-
- >I found out that you have to set the socketconfig environment variable:
-
- >setenv socketconfig "UID=<UserID>N/A GID=<GroupID>N/A USER=<username>A
- >DOMAIN=<domainname>A UMASK=<something to do with NFS-filesystem>A/N
- >KLUDGE<only needed in some situations>S"
-
- >mine looks like:
-
- >UID=100 GID=100 USER=hanssen DOMAIN=bart.nl UMASK=002
-
- >you could also look into the socket.library archive (found on Aminet). In
- >this archive a document is included.
-
- >I Hope this is of some help,
-
-
- >Job Hanssen - hanssen@bart.nl
-
- I had the same problem! Mahap - a - 'BUG' ??
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- Troy Bouchard
- tbouchar@ptialaska.net
- http://www.ptialaska.net/~tbouchar
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- 31-Dec-95 16:15:19
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