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Re: How do I send mail out?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Harrell)
Sat Nov 16 17:28:32 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:26:38 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Harrell <jharrell@basenet.net>
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Craig wrote:
>
> Do I use sendmail to send mail out if I'm on a PPP link? It seems that
> when I send mail out, the return path says root@gdi.net. Also, when I
> start pine it says something about a bad hostname. I dont know what to
> set my hostname, etc to. I am able to receive mail fine through fetchpop.
> How does everyone else setup there outgoing mail and hostnames?
>
> Craig
>
> infinity@gdi.net
>
In order to stop your return address form saying root@foo.bar log in as
yourself (i.e. me@foo.bar) where me is whatever your email name is. When
configuring, make sure that you set "your hostname" to that of your ISP's
if you don't have your own. Insofar as sendmail, yes that is the default
mail agent that pine uses to sendmail. Therefore, in your
/etc/sendmail.cf file you must set it up so that it relays mail to your
ISP's SMTP server. Hope this helps some :-).
Jason
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