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How to get visible_name to work?

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From: Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:46
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I got quite a few responses to my previous post about smail 3.1's
visible_name, et. al. and how to get my outgoing mail such that its
computed return address would be correct. 

I've had no luck fixing the problem though.  Here is a header generated
by smail 3.1.19 (X and tab added) :

X	From pgsn1!markd Thu Sep 10 19:51:06 1992
X	Return-Path: <pgsn1!markd>
X	Received: from pgsn1 by silogic.uucp with uucp
X		(Smail3.1.27.1 #3) id m0mT168-0001kGC; Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:51 PDT
X	Received: by pgs.sony.com ( Smail3.1.18.1 #PL19 )
X		id <m0mSzpH-0004VxC@pgs.sony.com>; Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:29 PDT
X	Message-Id: <m0mSzpH-0004VxC@pgs.sony.com>
X	Subject: test
X	To: silogic!markd
X	Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:29:34 PDT
X	From: Mark DiVecchio (K3FWT) <markd@pgsn1.sony.com>
X	X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]       ^
X	Status: RO                             |
X	                                       |
X	header test                            |
                                               |
                                               |
I seem to need to get this From line ----------   to reflect our
domain name, pgs.sony.com, in order for mail coming in to me to actually
get to my machine. My machine name is pgsn1 and no matter what I do, I
can't get this From line to come up <markd@pgs.sony.com>.

My config file has ended up as :

visible_name=pgs.sony.com
visible_domains=pgs.sony.com
hostnames=pgs.sony.com:pgsn1.sony.com:pgsn1:pgs
more_hostnames=pgs.sony.com

Thanks again for the help so far, but can anyone get me over the final
hurdle?

-- 
Mark DiVecchio, Silogic Systems, 619-549-9841                       K3FWT
-----   9888 Carroll Center Road, Suite 113, San Diego, CA 92126    -----
markd@silogic.uucp                             BBS 619-549-3927
...!ucsd!sdcrsi!silogic!markd     sdcrsi!silogic!markd@ucsd.edu
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From: markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT))
Subject: How to get visible_name to work?
Message-ID: <1992Sep12.014606.12754@silogic.uucp>
Organization: Silogic Systems, San Diego, CA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:46:06 GMT
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