[oclug] SMTP for rogers@home

[John Gluck]

Hi Tom

Below is the name I use:

mail.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com

John

dlinford at vcn.bc.ca wrote:

> Tom Cruickshank oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
>
> When I originally received roger @ home  the smtp server was simply "mail".
> Unfortunately, that only
> works if your machine is directly connected to the net (my computer is on a
> local lan). Would anyone
> know of the full name for the smtp server so that I might be able to send
> emails through the rogers smtp
> server from computers in my lan?
>
> On the machine configured for @ home, there will be settings
> for domains to search. That should make it obvious. You can
> also do "host mail", wich should tell you like:
>
> [dlinford at blue dlinford]$ host blue
> blue.erisian.com has address 192.168.101.6
>
> [dlinford at blue dlinford]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search erisian.com flaky.erisian.com ottawa.erisian.com
> #nameserver 192.168.101.3
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
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