Eugene O'Leary writes:
> I am a new user. I managed to connect to the Internet using Esatclear "Surf
> no Limits". I have managed to configure Netscape to surf and to send and
> receive e-mail. My problem is that I cannot use any of the other e-mail
> programmes (Mutt, Pine, Gedit, exmh etc.) to send or receive e-mail. All
> e-mails are rejected by the server as the return address is
>eugene at localhost.localdomain. (eugene is my home directory name i.e.
> /home/eugene). My e-mail address is eugeneo at esatclear.ie. Can anybody tell
> me how to configure my system so that I can insert my proper address and use
> it with all my e-mail programmes.
If you don't have a static IP address in the esatclear.ie domain
(_highly_ unlikely, I should think :), you'll just have to tell
your mail program/s to generate the proper address.
For mutt, add the following to ~/.muttrc:
my_hdr From: "Eugene O'Leary" <eugeneo at esatclear.ie>
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