Re: [Sheflug] Email addressess (was Emacs - formatting and dating files)

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Craig Andrews wrote:
> 
> >Whilst I'm on that thread, how do I deal with the fact that my email
> >address is TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net, but my local address is
> >baz [at] flux.localdomain (obviously not an internet visable host)?
> 
> Use masquerading in sendmail. Check sendmail.cf, and find the line starting with DM, and replace it with DMecosse.net

 Sorry, I use QMail, although I assume that there is an analogue to the
Sendmail functionality. Changing to Sendmail is not an option (and not
something I'd like to do anyway :-)
 Surely this hack would present me as baz [at] ecosse.net and not
TheEnglishman@ecosse.net?

> >I can't even figure out in Pine how to sent my address to be
> >TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net
> 
> Even easier. Go to setup, then config. The option 'user domain' (third from top, i think) should be ecosse.net, et voila! (or 'and walla!' if you use M$ stuff) the correct email address....

 Same again...baz [at] ecosse.net?

 I'd prefer to do this in Emacs / VM whatever than use QMail to do it.

 Cheers.

 Baz.

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