Very Computer

Hi all. I'm having a fairly persistent problem with my networking. I'm
using RedHat 4.1 (thought the networking components are all upgraded to
the 4.2 versions).

I've been having the following hassle: The computer I dial in to is
called pegasus.rutgers.edu. So in order to get my email to have the
right address on the header, I need to set my host to
'pegasus.rutgers.edu'. But of course, the problem with this is when I
try to send mail to other users on the school network, my machine thinks
the mail is for itself, and will not deliver it.

There is another option of course: change the hostname and use
"Reply-To: pegasus.rutgers.edu" , and just call the host whatever I want
to call it...like, "localhost" for example...

Only, when I try to do this, and send a message to one of my other
accounts, I discover that the Reply To: address doesn't work- the mail
programs on the other end all ignore it.

Thanks

-- Donovan

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you know what to delete from the header...

Quote:> Hi all. I'm having a fairly persistent problem with my networking. I'm
> using RedHat 4.1 (thought the networking components are all upgraded to
> the 4.2 versions).
> I've been having the following hassle: The computer I dial in to is
> called pegasus.rutgers.edu. So in order to get my email to have the
> right address on the header, I need to set my host to
> 'pegasus.rutgers.edu'. But of course, the problem with this is when I
> try to send mail to other users on the school network, my machine thinks
> the mail is for itself, and will not deliver it.
> There is another option of course: change the hostname and use
> "Reply-To: pegasus.rutgers.edu" , and just call the host whatever I want
> to call it...like, "localhost" for example...
> Only, when I try to do this, and send a message to one of my other
> accounts, I discover that the Reply To: address doesn't work- the mail
> programs on the other end all ignore it.
> Thanks
> -- Donovan
> __________________________________
> you know what to delete from the header...

Anthony

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Anthony Schlemmer

[Posted and mailed]

What you can do is this, depending on the mail program you are using.  If you
use pine, or elm, they have a config option to set the reply to for you.  
Personally, I use a wonderful gui program called tkrat, which not only lets you
set the reply to header for all your email, but let's you set up to masquerade
as any host you want to.  Ex:  My domainname on my system is shadow.land, but
tkrat makes me look like my ISP's domain connecti.com when sending out.

Ed

Quote:

> I've been having the following hassle: The computer I dial in to is
> called pegasus.rutgers.edu. So in order to get my email to have the
> right address on the header, I need to set my host to
> 'pegasus.rutgers.edu'. But of course, the problem with this is when I
> try to send mail to other users on the school network, my machine thinks
> the mail is for itself, and will not deliver it.

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