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In article <92325.165005U53076@uicvm.uic.edu> <U53076@uicvm.uic.edu>  
writes:
> 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.

It is best to use senmail.subsidiary.cf as your configuration file in your  
kind of situation.  Define an alias for your mail provider's hostname,  
called mailhost, and it will be used to handle all locally unresolvable  
mail addresses.  A similar situation can be solved using  
sensdmail.mailhost.cf if you need to: near the end of the file is a  
comment about 'pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder': do  
what it says.

I changed the D macro at the start of the file to: Dj$w ; this prevents  
duplicating domain names in your address.

I haven't seen the problem that you have had with receiving mail; you  
could probably define a hostname alias with that name for your local  
machine.

Paul
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Paul Lynch
P & L Systems                   (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
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