Re: Setting up tin for OS/X

Thank you for the suggestion! I did try it and it didn't work.=20

Then I remembered that tin is open source. I downloaded it, patched two line=
s, compiled it and, ten minutes later, it worked perfectly!


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On 28 Jun 2013, at 14:46, Dennis Preiser <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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> =46rom doc/INSTALL:
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> | Note: Tin requires a valid fully qualified domain name for the host you a=
re
> |       running tin on. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HOST NAME WITH A VALID DOMAIN G=
O
> |       AND GET ONE AND CONFIGURE YOUR HOST -- NOW! (This will prevent
> |       problems with other software, too.) Otherwise users may get "Inval=
id
> |       Sender" error messages and won't be able to post using the interna=
l
> |       inews.
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>> I've also tried setting up /etc/tin/tin.defaults but that doesn't do anyt=
hing.
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> Do you have installed tin via MacPorts? If so, try setting
> disable_sender=3DON in:
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>    /opt/local/etc/tin/tin.defaults
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> MacPorts uses tin.defaults in ${prefix}/etc/tin/tin.defaults with
> ${prefix} set to /opt/local by default.
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> Dennis
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