Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:25:20 -0700 From: mike bueide <mbueide@actcom.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Outbound mail using mutt+sendmail? Message-ID: <20011101162520.A4112@actcom.net>
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I'm attempting to use FreeBSD and sendmail to send mail using the mutt UA. I do not have a registered domain. I use a dial-up account to my provider and fetchmail to retrieve mail from the pop server. I don't have any trouble mailing myself or others I know on my providers network. I can even mail to a web email account I have at Yahoo. Normally, with my facticious hostname (tyan.bueide.org) set, I cannot send mail to either this list or to my workplace at AT&T broadband. But, I have found if I set my hostname equal to the DNS name for the ip address on the other end of my gateway machines modem link, I can send mail. I've set an alias up in the .muttrc so that the return address in the mail header points to my true email address. Is there an easier way to go about all this? My provider doesn't give me a static ip address, so whenever I want to be sure the mail gets out, I continually have to: 1) ifconfig tun0 2) nslookup (the ip address given by tun0) 3) hostname (value returned by nslookup) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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