[Gllug] sendmail and KMail config

[Richard Turner]

On Sunday 27 Apr 2003 10:32 pm, Xander D Harkness put fingers to keys and 
typed:
> >I'm getting confused now - are you saying that some servers would reject
> > my messages because richard at rj-turner.freeserve.co.uk doesn't look like a
> > fully-qualified domain name?  There must be thousands of people with
> > Freeserve addresses and they all look like that (except, perhaps, for the
> > hyphen).  I've never had trouble with this email address.
> >
> >I have already come across servers that are rejecting messages from
> >richard at melkor.zygous.co.uk but I would expect them to - that isn't a real
> >domain name - it's my host name.  That's the problem I'm trying to solve -
> >how to configure my sendmail so that messages routed through it appear to
> >originate from my Freeserve account and therefore not get rejected by
> > anyone.
>
> I think what you are seeking to do is described here:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/ref-guide/s1-sendma
>il-changes.html
>
> It allows your local machines on the network to have the hostnames
> stripped from the domain part of the email address as it passes through
> the server.
>
> Kind regards
> Xander

Ah, excellent.  Thanks Xander :-)
-- 
Richard Turner

"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."


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