[SLUG] mail

[John Francis <jfrancis@nospam.mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Ok, i've got sendmail using my isp's smtp server to send mail. I've 
tried it manually i.e:

<smtp_session>
> telnet localhost 110
- ok esmtp ...
mail from: some_user@nospam.some_real_domain
- sender ok
rcpt to: me@nospam.myhost
- recipient ok
data
- enter data
hello, this is a test.
.

</smtp_session>

It worked fine. Only problem is when I try to send from the "mail" 
program it returns it to me saying that the sender's domain must 
really exist.  In other words mail tries something like "mail from: 
jfrancis@nospam.localhost.localdomain" and then recieves an error from smtp.

My question is, how do I get around this?  How can i make mail (and 
other mail like programs) to use some other email address as the 
sender?

Am i going about this all wrong?

John
"When I get my email working right I'll worry
 about coming up with a good quote (maybe even
 a random quote generater)"




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