Re: Setting sender (newby)

Okay. I'm looking for a nice newsreader to use in a netbook, and I really
liked tin. Do you think it's not for me? It seems to be beyond my skills
to configure a valid domain for a netbook that is never going to stay
much time connected to the same network.

I believe this is not intrinsic to news clients, because I've used
thunderbird and it doesn't ask for a valid domain.  Does thunderbird
violate a good practice rule?

Thanks,

Maurício


2010/11/1, Urs Janßen <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>