Re: user/e-mail name

Peter H.
2004-03-07T01:47:12Z

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

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Peter