From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 25 13:03:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02928 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02908 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:03:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA287560890859803; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:03:23 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA01066; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:03:22 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04771; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:02:51 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA26269; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:02:50 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:02:50 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Willem van den Bosch cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emailing from private network In-Reply-To: <199803251324.XAA19435@diablo.OntheNet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message