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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:50:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mason Begley <phoenix@stlnet.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: remote mail and dual boot questions.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970220114838.15253K-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <330CCD86.24A6@stlnet.com>

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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Mason Begley wrote:

> I am currently using popclient (which I love to death) to read mail on a
> remote mail machine. But I'm not sure how to send mail the same way. If
> I use pine locally and use username@domain.com then it will put my
> machine name as the reply to field which I don't want since my FBSD
> machine is more or less a workstation only. (I dual boot winblows95 and
> freebsd and am not running a mail server on my 95 machine, it might
> break, hehe. Is there a smtpclient type of emailer that will let me
> create the e-mail on my machine and transfer it to another smtp server?

Some mailers will allow you to redefine the From: address.  Or, add a
Reply-To: header line pointing to the address you want mail to go to.
This is done in pine with the 'customized-headers' directive.

> Also, I am going crazy with this dual boot system of mine. What I would
> like to do is have my c: drive (1 gig SCSI drive) for windoze 95 and
> freeBSD on my other scsi 1 gig. Is this possible without repartitioning
> the drives? I heard that the OS/2 boot manager would alow me boot from a
> second PHYSICAL drive. Is this correct? I bought a used copy of os/2
> warp just in case this is right. 

:)  yes, this will work fine.

> Oh and one more thing (can you believe it?). I just bought a 2940UA card
> like yesterday and was stumped by the warm boot problem but right after
> I was about to give up on the whole thing (the 2940 card that is) I saw
> that message about the plug and play SCAm support. I changed it and it
> works like a charm.

I'll keep that in mind.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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