Re: Trouble sending mail

Steven C. writes:

> This is my third attempt to post to this board.
> 
> I'm trying to send email from my mailshack.com email
> address (which allows pop), but I get the following
> error:
> 
> 550 This user account is not authorized to send
> messages with the address user@mycomputer.
> 
> Why is it trying to send a message using my  linux
> username and hostname?  Under SETUP, I deleted

The default Cone configuration sends mail using whatever mail server you 
have installed on your machine (sendmail, posfix, whatever).

The typical default mail server configuration, sets the return address on 
locally submitted messages to <username@hostname>.

To change that, you need to reconfigure your mail server, or instruct Cone 
to send mail using an SMTP server (specify "outgoing SMTP server" in Cone's 
setup screen).

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