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To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf)
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Subject: Re: Mail Configuration error 
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:18:06 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Your problem is that sendmail needs to know its hostname; if the host name is 
going to be dynamically assigned then sendmail needs to get restarted every 
time you get a new host name.

If you restart your sendmail after setting your hostname to 
ppp02p03.ucc.uconn.edu (or whatever you get assigned), then email will work.
You won't have very nice return addresses, though, since presumably someone 
else will get that hostname next time they connect.

The easiest way to handle this situation is to ask uconn if you can get a 
statically assigned address.  Otherwise, you're going to have to register your 
own domain and figure out how to get the MX record to always point to the 
dynamic address that you currently have.

  Bill