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- From: heiko@Groucho.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko Schlichting)
- Subject: Re: SMAIL config problem
- Message-ID: <3HI01NQ@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry
- References: <GREENDOG.93Jan5155635@insti.physics.sunysb.edu> <GREENDOG.93Jan5170536@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:01:37 GMT
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- greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer) writes:
- > greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer) said:
- >
- >Michael> I am trying to switch to SMAIL here, and it works except for one
- >Michael> problem: it has trouble recognizing the local machine name. i.e.
- >[etc]
- >
- >OK, so I fixed that problem. It was the "domains=" was not set.
-
- You can check this with "smail -bP all" and set such variables in your
- $SMAIL_LIB_DIR/config file.
-
- >However, things are still funny. When I send mail to a machine
- >running smail, it arrives with the header
- > "From max.physics.sunysb.edu!greendog" when I think it should be
- > "From greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu". I can't find where this
- >is happening...
-
- This is an envelope address and normally written in this format. Look
- at the sender-address in the "From:" header. This is in the normal
- Internet format.
-
- Heiko
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- Heiko Schlichting | Freie Universitaet Berlin
- heiko@groucho.chemie.fu-berlin.de | Institut fuer Kristallographie
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