[LUAU] Fw: Speaking of sendmail

[Chris Wong]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Scott Cooley wrote:

> > On the MUA side (Mail User Agent) make the reply to user at whatever.com.
> > 
> > The box should handle. Of course you need correct MX records but we'll
> > leave that as an exercise to the reader.
> > 
> > But beware... doing this may cause blindness, loss of sleep, and lack of
> > appetite. I THINK it works, but I've been wrong before.
> 
> This is especially important if your linux.whatever.com is some made up
> name and doesn't have a DNS entry, as it looks like some SMTP servers will
> reject the message if they can't get an address for linux.whatever.com.
> If you use pine, anyway, set the "User Domain" in setup to be
> whatever.com.  For a while I was getting "sender domain does not exist"
> but this fixes the problem.

Oh yeah... there should be a sendmail.cw file. Make sure your whatever.com
domain is in that file. Actually, that's all you need since if you got the
MX record setup properly and the MUA's well.. mua'ing... life would be
good.

The only time you need to mess with that internal stuff is if you have
shell users. Of which we are a dying breed.

--
chris


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