my interim solution

[Frank Carmickle]

Hi Chuck.  

Sorry I ran off yesterday.  I think the best solution for you is to use
roles in pine.  and DS should be with out quotes.  The bloody send.cf file
is just amazing.  I haven't moved to exim on this box yet but I am going
to very soon.  Sort of waiting for a new disk and slack7.2 to come out.  

     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec at dryrose.com

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi gang -
> 
> Here is what I am going to do - it is ugly but it works!
> 
> 1. I have two pine configurations. My original one is chock full of
> references to my ISP and is called ".pinerc". It stays unmodified.
> 
> 2. The other pine configuration has all those references removed, and I
> called it ".local" - it doesn't matter much what I call it.
> 
> 3. I defined an alias in my .profile as follows:
> 
> alias local="pine -p .local"
> 
> 4. I put the user names of other user accounts into my pine addressbook as
> nicknames, with an email address of "username at localhost".
> 
> 5. To send mail to the outside world I invoke pine as usual. To send mail
> locally to another user account without requiring a link to my ISP I
> invoke it with the command "local".
> 
> And it works.
> 
> Now if I can only remember it when I need it I will be in business.
> 
> BTW only one of my user accounts has an associated email address, so this
> need only be done in that account. The others can only send mail to each
> other and to the primary user account but not to the outside world. I only
> have a single pine configuration in those accounts, stripped of ISP
> references. They can use Lynx and FTP okay but email is limited to the set
> of local users.
> 
> I don't like this, but it is workable. It leaves another problem
> unresolved - namely, when I send an email message from within Lynx, I
> still get the same poorly formed return address as I would from pine
> without its configured references to my ISP. I assume Lynx uses sendmail
> and relies on it to form the return address, and it is not being done
> correctly - it is including the hostname as well as the domain name, where
> it should only use the comain name.
> 
> I am tired - I think I will turn in and get ready for the two foot
> snowfall we are expecting here in the next 36 hours or so...
> 
> Thanks for all your help. The problem is not yet solved, but it is
> successfully avoided, which is sometimes the same thing!
> 
> Cheers - Chuck
> 
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
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> 
> 
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