From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 25 6:13:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459DD37B69D for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk@arthlink.net) Received: from arthlink.net (sdn-ar-004orportP320.dialsprint.net [63.178.68.226]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA07874; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by arthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA02904; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:12:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:12:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003251412.GAA02904@arthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: eogren@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20000325083752.A2400@earthlink.net> (message from Eric Ogren on Sat, 25 Mar 2000 08:37:52 -0500) Subject: Re: POP with MAILX Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Eric Ogren > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:32:57AM -0800, Derrick Baumer wrote: > > > > > > If you haven't already, set DM, DS, Dj$ according to your needs in > > /etc/sendmail.cf, then create /etc/sendmail.cw. The comments in the > > default /etc/sendmail.cf are brief, but they were enough for me to be > > able to set it up. /etc/sendmail.cw, on my system, has only one line > > - my domain name (earthlink.net). See what you can do and write again > > if you're still stuck. > > Hi there - just FYI, I'm pretty sure that if you have > earthlink.net in your /etc/sendmail.cw file, you won't > be able to send any mail to anybody else at earthlink.net; > your mail server will think it's intended for your machine > and since, for example, eogren probably isn't a user on your > machine, the mail will bounce with "eogren: unknown user". > You also don't need a Dj$ if you use the DM option, unless > you want sendmail to show "earthlink.net ESMTP sendmail". > > I'm not positive that I'm right (God knows I'm no sendmail expert), > but I am pretty sure. > > Eric Um. :) Never thought of that stuff. I'll have to look into it and see. Fortunately, I haven't had to send email to anybody at an earthlink address... Thank you for the information. -- Derrick Baumer bduk@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message