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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] can't send mail, sometimes
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Fri,  3 Aug 2007 12:36:17 +0200
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> Is this my own mail system rejecting me, or what? I'm not very
> well-versed in smtp-foo.
> 
No, it's google rejecting mail (I presume) from what I like to call a
"leaf" Internet node.  You must configure your mail to go to the SMTP
server provided by the ISP that assigned you your IP address.

> Also, what's the deal with the utterly and completely broken snarfing
> and pasting under vmware? I run aux/vmware in my lib/profile, which
> I thought was supposed to fix it, but I had to hand-type the above
> error because the damn thing is too broken to actually copy and
> paste it.

I'd like to know the answer to that as well, but only from an academic
perspective right now.  Maybe in the future I'll need VMware to
provide me with my primary Plan 9 service.

++L