Subject: Re: how to disable "User known" message

From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 00:45:02 +0800

On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, A.T. Phillips wrote:

> I tried the "quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file" but that seemed
> to make no difference.  I still get the error.  So ....
> what does "quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file" do?  And is there
> another answer to my original posting?

	Well, I suppose I should have read the help instead of
guessing.  You could go to the config and put your cursor on the
quell...and hit "?" to get a full description...but an excerpt
shows:

         FEATURE: quell-user-lookup-in-passwd-file
 
This feature controls an aspect of Pine's Composer, and if needed, will
usually be set by your system manager in Pine's system-wide configuration
file. Specifically, if this feature is set, Pine will not attempt to look
in the system password file to find a Full Name for the entered address.
 
	Which is not what you wanted....

	I'm not sure why you'd want to send an email only to have it
rejected.  So, having it rejected before actually sending it seems
like a nice feature....

	But, why now try setting the SMTP host to the value of that
of the local system.  That may get you the funtion you desire.

	Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 22:20:42 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
"A.T. Phillips" <[email-masked]> writes:

   If I attempt to send an email to a nonexistent user on my local
   system, Pine 3.94 rejects the attempt with the following
   message:

   Mail not sent: <baduser@mymachine>... User unknown

   Is there a way to turn this off, and force the mail to be sent
   (and bounced of course)?

I see you're posting from a Unix host, specifically an SGI.  Is it safe
to assume you're doing this for test purposes, not something you'll need
a whole lot on every day?  If so, I'd recommend just using the Unix mail
utility.  Under IRIX 5.x (at least) this is /usr/sbin/Mail.

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:45:25 +0100

> Is there a way to turn this off, and force the mail to be sent

There is probably a more direct way of doing this, but ...

If you set your smtp-host in your Setup Configuration to a machine
which doesn't know itself what users are on your machine (so it
will accept the message from Pine, but letter bounce when it tries
to pass it to your machine) you will get a real bounce message.

I'm sure that there are other ways, and this might not serve
your purpose depending on why you want to do what you want to do.

-j

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