From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 08:11:35 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA24689 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 08:11:35 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA24678 ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 08:11:32 -0700 Message-Id: <199507271511.IAA24678@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "John Booth" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS and mail. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 95 08:41:12 CST." <1C19BC5276F@gab.unt.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 08:11:32 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I have configured a few FreeBSD boxes with NIS and it seems when >sending mail it appends the domain to the address...for instance >my host is ulantris.csci.unt.edu and I had it in the .cas.unt.edu nis >domain. Replied mail would get ulantris.csci.unt.edu.cas.unt.edu... >is there a way to turn this off, or should the NIS domain and the DNS >domain always be the same?. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > College of Arts & Sciences > Computing Services > John A. Booth, john@gab.unt.edu This behavior is controlled by your mailer. I remeber this being a problem with elm. When I worked at TCS, we hacked around this problem, but I don't recall the patch. Your NIS domain and DNS domain can differ. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================