Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:52:09 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail again Message-ID: <15022.49337.425249.96546@guru.mired.org> 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>
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Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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