MISSING-HOST-NAME Outlook Express -> Linux

[Bruce Phipps]

I am running the Washington Univ. IMAP server on my RedHat 6.0 Linux system.

I can connect to it OK from Outlook Express on my Win95 machine.

I sent a few test messages between internal accounts on the Linux box. I
could retrieve them from the IMAP Inbox for the relevant account OK but the
From field was:

michael@MISSING-HOST-NAME
jack@MISSING-HOST-NAME

etc.

Whats the cause of this? I've set up masquerading for sendmail
(Elvis.mydomain.com becomes mydomain.com for outgoing mail).
Is IMAP and/or Outlook aware of this?
Thanks
Bruce

[Allan K]

"Bruce Phipps" <bruce_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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I run the same set up and all appears in order. i.e. allan@home. Did you
set a domain name on the server? (i.e. my server is narrowgate@home, my
machine down@home, my login on server is allan, by becomes allan@home)

Allan

[Bruce Phipps]

>I run the same set up and all appears in order. i.e. allan@home. Did you
set a domain name on the server? (i.e. my server is narrowgate@home, my
machine down@home, my login on server is allan, by becomes allan@home)<

As far as I know, I have.

Certainly the hostname info for the server works OK with sendmail.
I have put the client IP numbers in /etc/mail/access

I may try a few more simple test messages.

Bruce

[Bruce Phipps]

The problem seems to be this:

When I send a few internal test messages on the Linux box they are listed as

From: michael@localhost
(probably because I am using mail and sendmails masquerading rules may not
then apply).

Then when I go to a Win client and retrieve the mail, I get

From: michael@MISSING-HOST-NAME
probably because the Win box also has a reserved localhost host name.

I'll try sending via sendmail internally on the Linux box.

Another related point:
If I try to send a message to a locxal account "michael" from Outlook
Express, it is not routed to the local user account. An address book dialog
is shown.
Do I have to set up the Linux box as a gateway or something?

Bruce

[Allan K]

"Bruce Phipps" <bruce_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8nb949$500>

If I try to send a message to a locxal account "michael" from Outlook
> Express, it is not routed to the local user account. An address book
dialog
> is shown.
> Do I have to set up the Linux box as a gateway or something?
>
> Bruce
>

I have to address my OutlookExp To: to be allan@home (user@<server
hostname>) then it goes ok and is delivered

HTH

Allan

[Bruce Phipps]

>I have to address my OutlookExp To: to be allan@home (user@<server
hostname>) then it goes ok and is delivered<

Thanks, I'll try that.
Although there should be a way so that internal accounts on the sever are
supported just by sending to "username".
I found if I add full name details for the user account (using chfn --
although you can probably do this when you set up pine), then the full user
name "John Smith" is shown rather than MISSING-HOST-NAME.
Having said that, external email is fine and the Windows-Linux IMAP
connection works fine.

But there aren't many web resources on the Washington IMAP server -- just a
terse README included with the source.

Bruce

[Nick Rout]

try giving your redhat machine a real host name. not just home, but
home.madeupdomaiin.cxm (using a madeup top level domain such as cxm makes
sure you are not interfering with a real domain.

Now your windows client, oe or whatever, needs to have a domain part of the
email address, not sure if its a fault or a feature. :-)

"Bruce Phipps" <bruce_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message

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[Bruce Phipps]

Nick,

I found that if i edited the Linux account to include a full name:

joes:Joe Soap:.......

I did not get the MISSING-HOST-NAME bit.

I have given the machines a full domain name as you suggest, and can send
messages locally. But I still can't just send

To: michael

(There must be some way to set this up so that it goes to michael on the
local network -- I don't know whether its a sendmail, OE or DNS issue!)

Thanks
Bruce