Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:01:37 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with send-pr Message-ID: <20011031095200.M1587-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net>
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Hi folks, I just wanted to use the send-pr command in order to submit a piece of documentation to the FreeBSD Project, but I ran into some peoblems which made my submission not come through. Here's what's wrong: Whenever I invoke send-pr and send something with it, it sets the originating eMail address = my username @ my hostname. Since the machine I'm currently working on is called howie.ncptiddische.net, it would set the originating eMail address to nils@howie.ncptiddische.net. The problem: This host is not reachable from the Internet, and the eMail address automatically deterimed by send-pr does not exist. For everything to work, send-pr should send a report originating from my real eMail address, which is nils@tisys.org. However, I have not yet found a way to tell send-pr that it should use *this* address instead of the other (non-existent) one it automatically makes up. I have tried changing the "From" and "Reply-To" fields within send-pr, and I have even temporarily set my HOST environment variable to "tisys.org" since I thought that might help, but it didn't. Whatever I do, in my sendmail log file I can always see that send-pr has used nils@howie.ncptiddische.net as "From" address, while I want it to use nils@tisys.org instead. Any ideas what I can do about it? Submitting reports with a non-existent eMail address doesn't seem to be a good idea - neither will people be able to contact me, nor will the FreeBSD GNATS system accept them at all (I guess it's actually the mail server not accepting them.) So, any ideas? Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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