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In article <4h8f6h$asq@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> henryp@dircon.co.uk (Kevin Henry) writes:
> I wonder if someone (hoping Mr M B Smith) could answer this. My set  up  is
> this	Amitcp 4 demo using GRn 2.1, AmiPOP 3 and Smtppost and a mail program
> supplied in Amitcp package. I have an old problem where  I  cannot  use  my
> regular   Emailer  (Elm  v8)	to  send  mail	to  my	helpdesk  at  my  ISP
> (dircon.co.uk) as  the  mail	will  be  sent	straight  to  my  hardisk  in
> (uumail:helpdesk).

Actually, you can do this, just fine.

You should establish a unique hostname for your computer. Right now, you
have the utilities configured such that GRn/AmigaElm/whatever think your
hostname is "dircon.co.uk" -- which isn't true. That is the name of your
provider.

Pick something else, such as "amiga.dircon.co.uk", it doesn't really matter
too much. Then, set up your mailer to use a Reply-To header, which gets set
to your POP3 mail address (henryp@dircon.co.uk, I would guess).

>		      But i am not to worried about this as I will use my mail
> (mail from Amtcp package ) program to send mail thus in a CLI -:
>
> 1> mail rcpt=helpdesk@dircon.co.uk
> Subject:a message
> <open up fave editor>
> EOT
> mail has been sent.
>
> if need be, However there is down side to this is that the  return  address
> is  not  set	correctly.  so	therefore they cannot reply without having to
> *specify* the return address to reply.

This is the purpose of the Reply-To header. GRn, GMail, DMail, and I _think_
(but am not sure) AmigaElm, will all ready a file named: uulib:<user>.header
for headers to include into a mail. Have a single line in the file which says

Reply-To: henryp@dircon.co.uk

and you should be set.

>					 But strangely I found this  file  in
> my  T:  directory. It was a reply to my Email but I did not request Amipop3
> to get mail and it did not appear in my mail box  via  Elm.  The  file  was
> called  SMTP.0  this	to  me	seems like the Smtpd doing somthing? The file
> contents is as folows. Please could someone Email the answer if you can  as
> well as posting in the newsgroup.
>
> Received: from TDC.dircon.co.uk by dircon.co.uk (AmigaSMTPd 0.69 Dec 9, 1994)
>	  with SMTP; Sat, 2 Mar 96 01:07:38 PST

Your hostname is set to dircon.co.uk.

> To: Unknown <henryp@gw1-071.pool.dircon.co.uk>

This is what your _real_ hostname was at the time.

SMTPd had it's port opened and was delivered this email. It checked the
destination host against it's own hostname (and anything defined in
HostAliases), noted that it wasn't for the local host, and returned it
to SMTPSmarterHost.
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us