I've tried just about everything else, even driving my ISP tech support
people nuts, with this problem. I thought I would run it by the wizards on
this list. This problem is driving me bonkers.

I'm having a heck of a time getting my email programs to work with NetBSD
1.3.2. I have a ppp connection which I can verify with ping, traceroute,
and netstat -r. What I cannot do is receive or send mail via pine (3.96) or
with mail.

My etc/hosts file has the entry:
204.89.181.1     en.com
which is their correct IP address.

I have the daemons sendmail and inetd started on boot.

My setup for pine is:
user-domain: en.com
smtp-domain: en.com
inbox-path: {en.com}INBOX

When I invoke pine it tries to search for mail but returns the error:
"cannot connect to en.com 143 connection refused"

Yet, when I set:
inbox-path: {en.com/pop3}INBOX
I can receive mail but I cannot send mail. I get the error:
"510 HELO requires domain address"

So I tried:

#mail -v -s HELLO mwalker@en.com
this is a test
.
EOT
WARNING: local host name () is not qualified; fix $j in config file
mwalker@en.com... Connecting to en.com. via esmtp...
220 Mail ESMTP
>>> EHLO
501 EHLO requires domain address
>>> HELO
501 HELO requires domain address
>>> QUIT
221 grover.en.com closing connection
mwalker@en.com... Connecting to oscar.en.com. via esmtp...
mwalker@en.com... Closing connection to en.com.
220 oscar.en.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.0.Beta5/8.8.5; Mon, 31 Aug 1998
19:42:11 -0400 (EDT)
>>> EHLO
501 EHLO requires domain address
>>> HELO
501 HELO requires domain address
>>> QUIT
221 oscar.en.com closing connection
mwalker@en.com... Connecting to po.cwru.edu. via esmtp...
mwalker@en.com... Closing connection to oscar.en.com.
220 po.cwru.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.3 ready for love at Mon,
31 Aug 1998 19:43:05 -0400 (EDT)
>>> EHLO
501 EHLO requires domain address
>>> HELO
501 HELO requires domain address
>>> QUIT
221 po.cwru.edu closing connection
mwalker@en.com... Service unavailable
/root/dead.letter... cannot open: Permission denied
root... Connecting to local...
root... Sent
Closing connection to po.cwru.edu.

I have no idea what the line:
"WARNING: local host name () is not qualified; fix $j in config file"
is referring to.

I looked in all the config files to see if there was anything I needed to
set. But, found nothing obvious. At least to me.

There seems to be something I forgot to do, but I'll be damned if I can
figure it out. Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?

Thank you,
Mike