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2 total messages Started by Hubert B. Hickman Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:40

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Author: 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

Re: mail problems

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Author: Lytras Apostolos
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:48

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In article <1992Jul22.024034.17733@unlinfo.unl.edu> hickman@cse.unl.edu (Hubert B. Hickman) writes:
[...]
>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?

Depends on your definition of simple... ;) He most certainly will have
to edit /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf.  I suspect that his Ethernet Mailer
has the 'C' option turned on. (NeXT has this as a default...)

He could try to change the line

Mether,	P=[TCP], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h

to

Mether,	P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h

Else he would have to change the rulesets in sendmail.cf which can be
quite a pain somewhere... 

Hope this helps
- Apostolos
-- 
	 lytras@ifi.unizh.ch   		|   Apostolos Lytras
	 lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch	|   Informatik Club der Uni
	 lytras@amiga.physik.unizh.ch  	|   Zuerich, SysAdmin

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