[oclug] SMTP for rogers@home~~

[Ross Jordan]

Also note that Rogers provides a general purpose mail server --
netmail.home.com

-Ross

> 
> 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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