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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.it.siu.edu!slip106.termserv.siu.edu From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sendmail/domain question Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 22:50:58 CST Organization: Southern Illinois University Lines: 33 Sender: NNTP@slip106.termserv.siu.edu Message-ID: <2489b24f.u9t27e.4d501@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: slip106.termserv.siu.edu Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p In-Reply-To: <jl25n5.gn2.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> (from conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)) (at Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:53:07 -0500) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42471 Hi Conrad, on Jun 4 you wrote: > Lately, I've started experiencing a problem with certain remote sites > refusing to accept my mail because my local hostname "dolphin.neosoft.com" > is unknown (I use dynamic PPP, so no DNS entry for this name actually > exists). > > What I'd like to do is have sendmail strip the "dolphin" part, leaving > only "neosoft.com" as my domain in the header, or perhaps substitute > "localhost" for "dolphin", without altering the From or Reply-to addresses > (which are configured properly as "conrads@neosoft.com" in my mail, news, > etc. progs). First of all, your assigned mailbox/e-mail address at NEOSOFT.COM appears to be "conrads@mailbox.neosoft.com". How do you GET your inbound e-mail now? Second of all, you should be setting up your host with a valid host name. If the IP address assigned to you via dynamic PPP has no DNS definition, then perhaps you should talk to Ellyn (or whomever the DNS Admin is), and find out how to get the proper hostname to configure your machine with. Third of all, to use a "domain" e-mail address requires that the "domain" mail server recognize the "domain" name in addition to the fully qualified hostname. You will have to check with Ellyn or whomever the SMTP Admin is. Otherwise, you could use "conrads@neosoft.com" and never get anything. If the NEOSOFT.COM host runs an IMAP server, then the simplest thing to do would be to use the assigned mailbox address (or "domain" address if the mail server is set up for it), and let mail come to and get stored in that mailbox. Then use a nice IMAP client like TkRAT to get and send your e-mail. If they DON'T run an IMAP server, then perhaps you can ask them to.