Re: Setting sender (newby)

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:34:18PM -0200, Maurício Antunes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After trying to post to a newsgroup (using 'w', then editing message
> etc.) I get a complain from tin saying something about an invalid
> sender. It disappears after a couple seconds, but I can read it is trying
> to use "[email protected]" as sender.
> 
> I have set this in tinrc:
> 
>     [email protected]
> 
> and that's also what I type in 'From:' line when editing that message.
> 
> Why is that default value being used?

from the README file:

| Note that tin requires a valid fully qualified domain name for the host
| you are running tin on. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HOST NAME WITH A VALID DOMAIN
| GO AND GET ONE AND CONFIGURE YOUR HOST -- NOW! (This will prevent problems
| with other software, too.) Otherwise users may get "Invalid Sender" error
| messages and won't be able to post using the internal inews.