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Newsgroups: sg.singnet.ppp-tips
Subject: Linux Mail
Summary: Linux Mail
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:30:05 -0400

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Hello to everyone, I hope somebody can shed some light on a problem I am
having with my email clients running under Linux 1.2.13 installed from
Slackware 3.0.  Ftp, Telnet and all other internet stuffs run fine except for this
slight hitch. I can sucessfully send out my mails whether it is done under Mail,
Pine or Elm but I cannot receive any. My hostname is rocky.singnet.com.sg and
when I telnet to my ISP I notice that my received mail address, instead of

Could this be the reason why I am not receiving my mails because somehow I
have not configured some initiation files correctly ? However, I can send and
receive my mails when running Netscape 2.01 under X-windows.

Details of the relevant config files as follow:

/etc/HOSTNAME
rocky.singnet.com.sg

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 local host
165.21.83.88 rocky.singnet.com.sg rocky       # IP address of my ISP

/etc/host.conf
order hosts, bind
multi on

/etc/resolv.conf
domain singnet.com.sg
nameserver 165.21.83.88
nameserver 165.21.100.88

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
sbin/route add - net 127.0.0.1

The sendmail version is 8.6.1 and I use PPP to dial up to my internet provider.
The sendmail.cf I chosed is the default during setup, which is for a system that
is connected to the internet and a name server is available. I have even tried to
use m4 to generate my own sendmail.cf file but to no avail. (Based on the information from the HOW-TO
documentation).

I appreciate very much if someone can help to solve my problem.

Thanks.

Jeffrey Leong .

:
: Hello to everyone, I hope somebody can shed some light on a problem I am
: having with my email clients running under Linux 1.2.13 installed from
: Slackware 3.0.  Ftp, Telnet and all other internet stuffs
: run fine except for this
: slight hitch. I can sucessfully send out my mails whether
: it is done under Mail,
: Pine or Elm but I cannot receive any. My hostname is rocky.singnet.com.sg and
: when I telnet to my ISP I notice that my received mail address, instead of

: Could this be the reason why I am not receiving my mails because somehow I
: have not configured some initiation files correctly ? However, I can send and
: receive my mails when running Netscape 2.01 under X-windows.
:
: Details of the relevant config files as follow:
:

Look for lines in your sendmail.cf file that look simalar
to this:

# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading)
DM

And change to this:

# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading)
DMsingnet.com.sg

Which should put the correct return address on any outgoing
mail handled by sendmail.

Netscape apparently doesn't use sendmail to handle outgoing mail
and uses its own configuration.

BTW Please keep your line length under 78 charicters as it is
hard to read when it wraps into long & short lines, and is a
real pain to quote.