From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 16:52:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E10037B718 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:52:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 94324 invoked by uid 100); 14 Mar 2001 00:52:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15022.49337.425249.96546@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:52:09 -0600 To: Jim Weeks Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail again In-Reply-To: <3AAEBE55.6F0CBEDC@siteplus.com> References: <15022.33450.352537.801500@guru.mired.org> <3AAEB598.6B32721@siteplus.com> <15022.47765.119222.240179@guru.mired.org> <3AAEBE55.6F0CBEDC@siteplus.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Weeks types: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > What I'd like to know is where it gets the "earthlink.net" domain name > > from. > I guess I didn't do a very good job of explaining this. Right this minute I am in a > hotel room connected to the internet through ISP (earthlink.net). My laptop username > is (jim), however (jim) is not my Earthlink login. What happens is, Netscape picks > up my machine username and attaches it to the domain name of my outgoing SMTP server. > This results in jim@earthlink.net. Not Correct!! No, you did a great job. I understand exactly what's going on. Did you configure the domain name to be earthlink.net, or did it come from somewhere else? > Suppose my Earthlink login name is (fuzzyduck). The way I look at it, the Sender: > field should be fuzzyduck@earthlink.net. As I said, this would solve the problem > since fuzzyduck@earthlink.net would be a valid email address. Right. That's why I suggested tweaking the netscape script to set USER or LOGNAME to your earhtlink login name, to see if Netscape will use that for Sender. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message