[wellylug] sendmail - enough for today!

[Persian]

Hi Ewen

thanks once more for your help.

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:43:46 +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> Running your own MTA (mail transport agent, like sendmail) without a
> "real" (permanent) domain name is problematic as we've seen.  
> 
> Email programs like Evolution (and most Windows email programs) avoid
> I don't use mutt often enough to know if it can be configured to only
> ever talk to a remote mail server (MTA).  I also don't know if that
> would have undesirable side effects (eg, causing a modem to dial out
> frequently -- Windows mail clients typically require express user action
> to send/receive mail, at least by default, to avoid this).

We have ADSL since last week.

All I know is I have never had a real domain name and I ran mutt for 4 years  using exim.
with no problems. ( and no modem dial problems).

I do not want to use any mail prog which needs heavy mouse usage.

Can I use exim with RH9 then? and get rid of this sendmail?

> 
> In answer to the rest of Persian's question the most appropriate way to
> get persian13 at ihug.co.nz into the From line would be to (a) add your
> user as a sendmail trusted user for overriding the From line, and (b)
> configure mutt to do that.  IIRC the instructions I mentioned earlier
> are sufficient to do that.  (And AFAICT the "lyndsay at ihug.co.nz" result
> is due mainly to setting /etc/mailname.)
> 

I am sure I have made ALL the changes you suggested. I thought I had to 
add my LOGIN name on my pc to the trusted file, not persian13 ??
The .muttrc has the header as from persian13etc.
My login name is lyndsay but the email is persian13. Did I give you the wrong info?

OK thanks again, I will look at it again tomorrow

regards

Persian