Subject: Re: Re-reading /etc/hosts or /etc/rc.conf
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/10/2001 16:51:41
> > You can also make a change like this to sendmail.cf if you want your
> > system's real name to be one thing and the name on sent mail another.
> 
> Um... this shouldn't matter for sent mail, since an SMTP envelope
> address has mighty little to do with the host from which it was
> actually sent (just set the right thing in your MUA and you're done...
> having your MTA rewrite this is a bit messy and not so much TRT).

Unfortunately, Elm isn't that bright. :-) So I have sendmail do the work
for it. But yes, it would be cleaner to do this in the client, I agree.
In my situation it's just simpler this way.

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