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From: mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: local adress problem`
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.135752.1705@DRD.Com>
Date: 13 Jul 90 13:57:52 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.000213.4942@cs.umn.edu> <433@comcon.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Organization: DRD Corporation, Tulsa, OK
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} In article <1990Jul10.000213.4942@cs.umn.edu>, iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou) writes:
> [about using elm 2.3 pl3 and domain name getting pasted onto address of
> local mail]

tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) wrote:
} On my system when this happens, sendmail is refusing to deal with it
} saying it is a bad user.  Any ideas what I should fix?

On our system, all mailboxes resolved to user@mailhost and mail is
delivered there.  When a user, who happens to be logged into mailhost,
reads his mail from another local user and tries to reply, the MTA
(sendmail) connects to itself and says HELO DRD.Com and immediately
errors out with a hostname configuration error.

I'm sure I could fix this in the sendmail.cf if I wanted to slog through
the damn thing and re-learn it all over again, but I found an easier fix 
by doing the following in config.sh in the toplevel directory of my elm
distribution:

mydomain=''

I'll leave it to my MTA to paste the correct domain onto outgoing mail,
thank you.