From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Apurva Mehta To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems.. Message-Id: <20030625161910.741a48e7.apurva@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20030624220435.05eac738.apurva@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:19:10 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: db25dba4-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:13:03 -0400 "Russ Cox" wrote: > Every time you run the "mail" command, it will dial out just to > see if there are new messages. That might be the delay you are > seeing. How does it dial out automatically? I have not saved any connection information anywhere (yet). I connect using ip/ppp .. > tail /sys/log/smtp and /sys/log/mail. Probably an error occurred > and they got dropped on the floor (the bounces bounced too). > You can look at the queue in /mail/queue/$user. The /sys/log/smtp file was empty. The /sys/log/mail file did list the mails I had tried to send, but there was no error message associated with any of them. > Sure, but you also need to edit /mail/lib/remotemail to set the > from domain there. The headers file just affects the headers, > not the smtp envelope. I set fd=gmx.net in /mail/lib/remotemail .. Is this correct? Also, in the/sys/log/mail file it continues to list the sender as 'apurva', with no mention of the gmx.net domain. Personally, I feel that this may be the reason why my emails are not reaching. - Apurva