Re: Setting up tin for OS/X

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:07:28AM +0200, Peter Brooks wrote:
> When I try to follow-up a post, it fails because it has my address as
> {name}@{machine-name}.local. I've given it my correct e-mail address

From doc/INSTALL:

| Note: 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.

> I've also tried setting up /etc/tin/tin.defaults but that doesn't do anything.

Do you have installed tin via MacPorts? If so, try setting
disable_sender=ON in:

	/opt/local/etc/tin/tin.defaults

MacPorts uses tin.defaults in ${prefix}/etc/tin/tin.defaults with
${prefix} set to /opt/local by default.

Dennis