@home email problem

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
24 Dec 2000 15:07:25 -0500


Don Chorman <chormand@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> When I fisrt installed mandrake 7.2,
> I could get email from @home.
> Now, after I re-installed Mandrake,  
> I cannot connect to @Home's email server. 
> According to the paperwork the tech gave 
> during the install, the mail server's name 
> is "mail". Something is up because, I 
> cannot ping "mail".

Can you ping it under its fully-qualified domain name?  i.e., as
`mail.home.com' or whatever its full name is?  If so then you
need to edit resolv.conf to include home.com in your list of
search domains.  Here's my own /etc/resolv.conf, you'll want to
edit it to fit your own situation:

search quux.net user.msu.edu msu.edu debian.org gnu.org
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 35.8.2.41
nameserver 35.8.2.42