"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:

I'm running SuSE 6.2 and using the Netscape Communicator mailer. Under Netscape's Preferences / Mail and Newsgroups / Identity, I have specified my email address (as distinct from my reply address) to be abrahams@mbs.valinet.com. My Linux user name (on my own computer) is pwa. The email that I send out acquires a strange hybrid as the sender in the header: pwa@mbs.valinet.com.

Netscape sends the mail to your system, hence the pwa@mbs.valinet.com. The file involved is /etc/mail/genericstable (IMHO) http://localhost/doc/sdb/en/html/smt_sendmail.html If you installed the local SDB the above link should point you to more information. Juergen

How is that sender address generated, and which program does the generating? Is there a way to change it so that the sender will be abrahams@mbs.valinet.com?

I've also noticed another strange thing: that if I specify under Netscape that my email address is abrahams@valinet.com (no ``mbs''), the mbs gets added to the return address in the header (as distinct from the sender in the header) anyway. Can anyone explain that?

Paul Abrahams

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