Subject: Re: Problem with domain name when sending mail

From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 6 May 1995 04:02:35 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Matthew Cravit <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I am having a problem with Pine 3.90 on Solaris for x86 version 2.4.
>When I send mail to a local user (ie put only the username in the to:
>field), pine drops the hostname from the domain.

Are you sure it's Pine and not sendmail playing with rewrite rules?  
Sounds to me like a common thing for sendmail to do, especially when you 
have a centralized mail hub available at the domain level.  Read 
/etc/sendmail.cf to see if that's what it is doing.  (I'm not going to 
tell you which rulesets to look at, because anybody who claims to know 
the function of rulesets greater than 4 is lying, since they have no 
mandatory function.)
-- 
Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
  System Administrator, Project Isis, Office of Information Technology
                       The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew Cravit)
Date: 4 May 1995 18:38:31 GMT

I am having a problem with Pine 3.90 on Solaris for x86 version 2.4.
When I send mail to a local user (ie put only the username in the to:
field), pine drops the hostname from the domain. In other words, if I
put in "root", Pine expands it to "[email-masked]" instead of
"[email-masked]". I have specified the following in
/usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed:

user-domain=teacher.acs-lc.depaul.edu

And I have taken the user-domain directive out of
/usr/local/lib/pine.conf. I have also tried this with and without the
use-only-domain-name set.

Can anyone suggest to me how I might be able to fix this? The box on
which Pine is running is going to be for relatively unsophisticated
users, and I don't want to make them have to type the whole domain
name if I can help it.

Thanks

/Matthew Cravit, System Manager
 DePaul University

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Matthew Cravit,                    |  "After all is said and done,
Academic Technology Development    |   more is said than done."
DePaul University, Chicago IL      |        -- Anonymous
E-Mail: [email-masked]    +-----------------------------

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 16:37:21 -0700 (PDT)

Matthew,
   The way user-domain works was changed in Pine 3.91.  Prior to that
there were some quirks with the way it worked, and you're probably
running into one of those quirks.  With 3.91, if you set user-domain that
is what you'll get.  So the suggestion is to upgrade to 3.91.  Thanks.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle