Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 08:35:48 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, frankd@yoda.fdt.net, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail Message-ID: <3205EAA4.510E@ime.net> References: <199608042202.PAA26873@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > Mark Murray wrote: > > > > Gary Chrysler wrote: > > > > It will prompt you for your password, query the mail server and drop all > > > > your mail in your system mail folder. You can also run it from cron but > > > > you must use -p <password> which will show up in a ps listing. You might > > > > not want to do this for security reasons. I do it on my home machine so I > > > > don't have to worry about someone seeing my password. Hope this helps. > > > > > > > > > > How does outgoing mail get addressed, I tried this (not very hard) > > > and my outgoing mail gave my address from my internal net, I need > > > it to match my account with my ISP, As if I had sent it from my ISP. > > > > The easiest way is to cheat with your mailer (PINE/ELM/MH/Whatever), > > and just set your from address there. > > > > Harder work would be to convice sendmail to do it for you. Look at > > the M4 macros in its source directort for some clues. > > the "harder way" (??) is to set "DMdomain.my.mail.comes.from" > in /etc/sendmail.cf on each machine that sends mail > > its the masquerade option that i s described in the bat book > (oreilly senmdail) p. 747 > Thanks for the info. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848
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