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Configuring Mail.app?

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From: U53076
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:50
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Hi,
   I'm trying to configure Mail.app to send and receive mail.  I have a station
on a local non-netinfo network and the one machine that's hooked to the outside
world is not a NeXT.  I can send and receive mail, but only with some bugs.
The bugs are as follows.  When I send mail from the NeXT, my header doubles my
domain name (should be ludwig.pmad.uic.edu ; shows up as ludwig.pmad.uic.edu.pm
ad.uic.edu).  Also, the only way I can receive mail is if I put my entire name
as the host name in NetManager.  That is, if I put "ludwig" alone as the host
name in NetManager, then I get host name configuration errors when I try to
send mail to myself from another machine.  If I put "ludwig.pmad.uic.edu" as
the hostname in NetManager, then I can receive mail, but my prompt in Terminal
shows up as "ludwig.pmad.uic.edu>".  If the hostname is only "ludwig", the
header doubling and Terminal prompt problems go away, but I can't receive mail.

What do I do?

Do I need to create a mailhost with NetInfoManager?

Which sendmail config file should I create a link to?  Right now I have a
symbolic link from sendmail.mailhost.cf to sendmail.cf.

I need help.  Thanks in advance.

                       Bruce Lambert
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:50:05 CST
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