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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!deeken From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Smail 3.1.28 on 386bsd Date: 7 May 1993 10:38:37 +0200 Organization: TU Darmstadt, ITI Lines: 22 Message-ID: <deeken.736763696@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> References: <1993Apr30.051036.14358@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: spelunke.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de crawford@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za (Brian Crawford) writes: >I'm running 386bsd release 0.1 w/ patchkit 0.2.3, and Smail 3.1.28. Recently, >we changed our machine name from com9 to comgate. The 386bsd /etc files were >changed and there is no problem with the os it seems. However, after changing >the Smail config file, the email software still thinks it's com9. >What must be done to get email to recognize the change? Hmmm... which variables did you change in smail's config file? hostname[s], more_hostnames, visible_name, uucp_name? Did you test smail verbatim, without a user agent like elm involved? If not, check whether you UA has the old hostname compiled in (e.g. with strings(1)) Hannes -- Hans-Christoph Deeken (deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) TH Darmstadt, Germany