Re: user/e-mail name

pa3gcu
2004-03-03T14:05:52Z

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 08:48, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Slackware9.1 my user name is peter and my e-mail address is
> heisspf@isp.net
>
> Apparently mail I send arrives From: peter@isp.net. Therefore, when the
> recipient makes a "reply" the mail bounces since naturally peter@isp.net is
> not found.

Yes i know, i tryed to send you a reply to your mail to me but it got bounced.

>
> My mail program is exmh.
>
> Can that be corrected w/o changing my user name?

First thing i would try is simply create a user account for heissp and add an
alias in /etc/mail/aliases;

heissp: peter
Save file and run;
newaliases

No doubt there are other ways to do it, but this seems a very simple and easy
way to do it.

> Thanks & regards
>
> --
> Peter

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Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl