Subject: Problem with local Unix mail and network

From: [email-masked] (Randy Kreuziger)
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 05:11:04 GMT

We jusk got PINE on our system and i'd like to use it as a replacement
for the Unix mail command but I'm having a problem sending mail to
other local users.  We have a network of 6 Sun Sparcs, one of them
acting as a mail server to the others.  When I try and send email
to a local user the PINE program appends the hostname to the mail so
that email to 'kreuzrsk' becomes 'kreuzrsk@gandalf'.  This always
bounces back!  Email send to the user at the domainname works with
PINE.  

Any ideas?  Mail comes back with an error 554 whatever that is.  At
least with the Unix mail command I can sned local mail even if I can't
stand it for reading email.

I'm no longer at this internet address so please send suggestions to
[email-masked]  thanks.

randy kreuziger
Washing Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

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From: [email-masked] (Mano Pallewatta)
Date: 3 Dec 1994 12:25:54 GMT

Randy Kreuziger ([email-masked]) wrote:

: We jusk got PINE on our system and i'd like to use it as a replacement
: for the Unix mail command but I'm having a problem sending mail to
: other local users.  We have a network of 6 Sun Sparcs, one of them
: acting as a mail server to the others.  When I try and send email
: to a local user the PINE program appends the hostname to the mail so
: that email to 'kreuzrsk' becomes 'kreuzrsk@gandalf'.  This always
: bounces back!  Email send to the user at the domainname works with
: PINE.  

Sendmail at the mail host should be configured to accept mail for all the 
hosts in the network. The local hosts should forward all the mail to the 
hub. So you should configure sendmail.cf in the local hosts to do that. 
Or else you may set the smtp-server in .pinerc to point to the hub.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 07:53:33 -0800

Randy,
This usually means that your /etc/hosts file lists the "short" name (i.e. 
gandalf) before the fully qualified name... However, you can set the 
user-domain variable in /usr/local/lib/pine.conf to whatever domain you 
wish Pine to use.

-teg