Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:02:50 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Willem van den Bosch <willem@onthenet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emailing from private network Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980326085917.26208C-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199803251324.XAA19435@diablo.OntheNet.com.au>
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Willem van den Bosch wrote:
> Hi
>
> my aim is to be able to email to the world with Pine from my FreeBSD box.
>
> I have ppp, popclient, pine up and running, I can log on to my ISP and
> collect my email
> which I can read with pine.
>
> I can also send email, but the from address is that of my private network,
> and the logged in user
> ie. <root@abacus.wwweavers.net.au> and the mail bounces, if I try and
> change it in Pine to my Internet email address, I get a domain doesn't
> exist error message when I try and send the message.
Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to your ISP's nameservers.
Alter your .pinerc so that the `smtp-server=' points to your ISP's
mailserver; and `user-domain=' to whatever you want.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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