Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Don't want MH to handle hostname Message-ID: <1990Oct25.164010.12528@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 25 Oct 90 16:40:10 GMT References: <3952@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 22 In article <3952@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes: >In article fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu >(Frank Peters) writes: > >$ [...] >$ MH seems to put a hostname in the from address before handing it to >$ sendmail for delivery. Is there some easy way to make it not do that? > >MH is not putting the hostname in. Sendmail is. If you want to change >that, change the sendmail configuration. >-- Sorry to correct you, but MH is indeed putting the hostname in. There is even a place where you are supposed to define this hostname in mtstailor. If MH passes it to sendmail via SMTP (its preferred method) the SMTP protocol strictly speaking requires a hostname. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940