Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:12:59 -0800 (PST) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: eogren@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POP with MAILX Message-ID: <200003251412.GAA02904@arthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000325083752.A2400@earthlink.net> (message from Eric Ogren on Sat, 25 Mar 2000 08:37:52 -0500)
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> From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:32:57AM -0800, Derrick Baumer wrote: > > > > > > If you haven't already, set DM, DS, Dj$ according to your needs in > > /etc/sendmail.cf, then create /etc/sendmail.cw. The comments in the > > default /etc/sendmail.cf are brief, but they were enough for me to be > > able to set it up. /etc/sendmail.cw, on my system, has only one line > > - my domain name (earthlink.net). See what you can do and write again > > if you're still stuck. > > Hi there - just FYI, I'm pretty sure that if you have > earthlink.net in your /etc/sendmail.cw file, you won't > be able to send any mail to anybody else at earthlink.net; > your mail server will think it's intended for your machine > and since, for example, eogren probably isn't a user on your > machine, the mail will bounce with "eogren: unknown user". > You also don't need a Dj$ if you use the DM option, unless > you want sendmail to show "earthlink.net ESMTP sendmail". > > I'm not positive that I'm right (God knows I'm no sendmail expert), > but I am pretty sure. > > Eric Um. :) Never thought of that stuff. I'll have to look into it and see. Fortunately, I haven't had to send email to anybody at an earthlink address... Thank you for the information. -- Derrick Baumer bduk@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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