From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Peter H." Subject: Re: user/e-mail name Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:47:12 +0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040307014712.EDA4DD809@heisspf> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040305070344.01fc8e70@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:20:45 PST." <5.1.0.14.1.20040305070344.01fc8e70@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Thanks Ray, ray@comarre.com said: > using.. How *do* you get your mail? That is, what do you mean by "directly"? > I've been assuming (as have, I imagine, others) that you get your mail > through an ISP (or, as you now remind us, several ISPs) using POP May be my confusing answer on how I receive my mail was in answer to Richards question which I apparently misunderstood thinking he meant that I receive my mail through a web mailer like operamail.com. ray@comarre.com said: > Doesn't your POP client need to provide a userid and password to get mail? Yes it does. However, I can use other ISPs than the one I have an account with to fetch my mail. ray@comarre.com said: > Intrinsically, the "user name" and the "e-mail name" need have nothing in > common, on outgoing mail Then why do those stupid programs (exmh, pine, kmail) insist that my mail comes from peter and not from heisspf? Where do they pick-up that peter? I am using postfix now, before sendmail. In /etc/postfix/main.cf it says clearly: myhostname = heisspf Only sylpheed does it right. The suggestion of Peter Gantner to put "sendmail-path=/usr/bin/sendmail -t -f my.realemail@isp.net" into .pinerc changed nothing. ray@comarre.com said: > I hope that is a more satisfactory answer than what you got in the past. I > am quite surprised that you did not get one when you asked before ... > assuming you asked here on this list. Yes it is and was except I seem to be too dumb to get it done right. Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs