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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:25:20 -0700
From: mike bueide <mbueide@actcom.net>
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Subject: Outbound mail using mutt+sendmail?
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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)

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