email problem

[Willem van der Walt]

You normally set that in your mail client like in mut or pine.
I use pine so cannot tell you about mut, but look at your configuration 
options for something like from:
Regards, Willem

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, rkruger at gawab.com wrote:

> 
> Thanks, that did the trick. Now I only have to find out how to let sendmail fil in my email address for me. At the moment no server wants to except my email as there is no email address in the "from" field.
> 
> Take care,
> Rynhardt
>  
> -- original message --
> Subject:	Re: email problem
> From:	Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
> Date:		September 26th 2007 12:19 pm
> 
> Hi,
> Sendmail is the oldest mta and is very powerful, but it is also 
> complicated.
> I suggest you use exim, another program doing the same as sendmail, but a 
> lot less complicated to set up.
> I think your problem is that you must have the mail going out set up not 
> as coming from localhost, but from gawab.com
> Look at /etc/mail/sendmail.mc for changing this for sendmail.
> 
> I think the line you need to edit is:
> dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')dnl
> HTH, Willem
> 
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, rkruger at gawab.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply. I have a smarthost at "smtp.gawab.com" which I may 
> > use. It requires authentication. After reading some docs on the net, I 
> > tryed to setup sendmail to talk to the smtp server, but I got the 
> > following error in a reply from the mail system:
> > 
> > ... while talking to smtp.gawab.com.:
> > >>> MAIL From:<rpk at localhost.localdomain> SIZE=674
> > <<< 552 sorry, your envelope sender domain must exist (#5.7.1)
> > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> > 
> > Which setting in sendmail do I have to change to make it work?
> > It is really annoying how I send mail at the time. I have to type the 
> > email on my computer and bluetooth it to my phone to send.
> > Thanks for any help in advance.
> > 
> > Take care,
> > Rynhardt
> > 
> > 
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