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Re: Getting Mail from a remote host over ppp.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chris parman)
Tue Nov 12 20:10:56 1996

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:08:17 -0500 (EST)
From: chris parman <chev@eel.ufl.edu>
To: David Hallam <D.Hallam@mailbox.uq.oz.au>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <v02110100aeaecd26b05e@[130.102.89.175]>
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You have to set you host thingy, by issuing this command.

set HOSTNAME='host-name-here'
export HOSTNAME

I think that will work

-Chris

> Can anyone point me to a nice document on getting mail of a remote isp site
> over a dial in ppp link. I've loked at the HOWTO's but unlike the PPP
> HOWTO's I just seem to be more confused.
> Any pointers appreciated.
> 
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