Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!trwind!venice!verket From: verket@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Paul Verket) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: incoming mail not working with SLIP Message-ID: <1131@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> Date: 25 Jun 91 05:10:28 GMT References: <1991Jun21.182242.835@arizona.edu> Reply-To: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Distribution: comp.sys.next,local Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 18 In article <1991Jun21.182242.835@arizona.edu> zazula@soliton.uucp (Ralph Zazula) writes: >Well, sometimes mail comes in and gets delivered fine. Other times >it does not. Does anyone have incoming/outgoing mail working >smoothly >with SLIP on thier machine? I'd really like to get this pinned down. >A friend of mine says that the version of "sendmail" that is on the >NeXT is broken... It seems to work sometimes, however... I'm assuming that you're using a dialup slip connection that isn't up all the time. I'm in that situation and I changed sendmail.cf so my mail's "from" address is a (work) machine that _is_ on the net. I then either read replies at work or bounce the mail home while the slip connection is up. Let me know if you'd like to see my sendmail.cf file (and whether you can take nextmail) Paul Verket (NeXTmail)