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- From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: Smail 3.1 and VISIBLE_NAME Question
- Message-ID: <Bu8uF4.9Dv@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Summary: What I do here - make a "config" file
- Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Chicago, IL
- References: <1992Sep4.015435.22490@silogic.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:11:27 GMT
- Lines: 79
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- In article <1992Sep4.015435.22490@silogic.uucp> markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)) writes:
- >
- >I am using smail 3.1 PL 19 at a client and they are part of a registered
- >domain.
- >
- >The machine is known in the domain as pgs.sony.com. The actual machine
- >name is pgsn1.
- >
- >When I send mail, the outgoing address is generated as
- > markd@pgsn1.sony.com
- >
- >When people try to reply to this address, it bounces since the domain
- >machine does not know pgsn1.sony.com but wants to see pgs.sony.com.
- >
- >Can anyone help me figure out how to set VISIBLE_NAME, HOSTNAMES, and
- >GATEWAY_NAMES in the smail conf/EDITME file to get my address to come
- >out pgs.sony.com? (or is there something else I have to set?)
- >
- >Here is a typical header that I get (X and tab inserted so as to not
- >confuse anything carrying this message):
- >
- >X Return-Path: <pgsn1!markd>
- >X Received: by sonyusa.Sony.COM (4.0/SMI-4.0)
- >X id AA01484; Wed, 2 Sep 92 17:27:34 PDT
- >X Received: by pgs.sony.com ( Smail3.1.18.1 #PL19 )
- >X id <m0mQ4nb-0002dpC@pgs.sony.com>; Wed, 2 Sep 92 17:11 PDT
- >X Message-Id: <m0mQ4nb-0002dpC@pgs.sony.com>
- >X Subject: test
- >X To: sonyusa!markd
- >X Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 17:11:43 PDT
- >X From: Mark C. DiVecchio <markd@pgsn1.Sony.COM>
- >X X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
- >
- >I have set:
- >#define VISIBLE_NAME pgs.sony.com
- >
- >Thanks, mark
-
- What I do here is run with a "config" file in the /usr/lib/smail directory.
- This over-rides any compiled-in defaults. I will comment the parts which
- are relavent to you; you should be able to create this file with only these
- lines in it and have it work:
-
- # @(#)config 1.4 10/2/88 09:20:06
-
- # This file defines the default state for all variables that can be
- # set in the smail config file. By modifying either the source file
- # src/config.h or conf/EDITME the actual default state can be changed.
- # Thus, this should be matched up against these two files before
- # assuming it is completely correct.
-
- # All the names that this host should consider "local"
- # (Note that we name two hostnames here, and all the canonical forms that
- # might get passed to us in the headers. This is to make sure that we
- # really do handle them all as local. Note also that anyone sending mail
- # the our domain without a hostname is presumed to be sending mail to this
- # machine; we're the domain "alias router")
- #
- hostnames = ddsw1.mcs.com:mcs.com:ddsw1:genesis.mcs.com:genesis:ddsw1.uucp:genesis.uucp
- #
- # This is our domain list - we feel we are "local" for these. Probably not
- # really needed, but its here so what the heck.
- #
- visible_domains = mcs.com:uucp
- #
- # Make sure that any mail that leaves our site has this name in the "From"
- # line. Note that this only applies to locally sent mail (i.e. mail from
- # connected machines is not affected) Thus "karl" becomes
- # "karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM" on mail that I send from this system.
- #
- visible_name = ddsw1.MCS.COM
-
-
- Hope this helps.
-
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- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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