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From: Hubert B. Hickman
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:40

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I have an email question for you.  A colleague is attempting
to configure his NeXT to receive mail via Internet.  He has 
been assigned an IP number, etc., and is able to telnet out
to other machines, ftp, etc. without a problem.  Other people can
telnet into his machine, and the "finger" command works fine.
However, mail does not work as it should. This machine is 
on a non-NetInfo network (at present). 
 
From the transcript of a  mail -v command, it seems that
the machine name is being constructed incorrectly.  That is,
instead of hostname.institution.edu the machine name
is hostname.institution.edu.institution.edu.  

Is there something simple that needs to be fixed here?

Thanks,

Hubert Hickman
hickman@cse.unl.edu

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