Re: An idea about mail

[mR gOBLIN <goblin@scooter.co.nz>]

Hiya Ycore
Here are a couple of links that may help with the IP masquerade

http://howto.linuxberg.com/LinuxGuide/index.html
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade
Just a little help from a fellow Newbie.....
:)


Ycore wrote:

> Just out of curiousity... what is 'masquerading'?  where can i read about
> it?
>
> another question... this is a serious newbie thing...
> when i put './' infront of a file name, (for example ./WMprefs) what am i
> doing?  does the './' have a special (or not special) name?
>
> I appologize for putting this here, i'm not into one of the IRC's yet, i'll
> have to look into finding one for support. (kinda sounds like an Alcoholics
> Anonymous group (-; )
>
> James Nichols
>
> Ycore@email.msn.com
> e-mail address changing soon, i'm firing microsoft because i can't retrieve
> my email from linux
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfm2@club-internet.fr <jfm2@club-internet.fr>
> To: independence-l@independence.seul.org
> <independence-l@independence.seul.org>
> Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 7:04 PM
> Subject: An idea about mail
>
> >
> >I am fighting with sendmail because I want to get masquerading right
> >once and for all.  Once I get it it must be possible to write a liittle
> >script to just ask the user how he is to be masqueraded, and genertae
> >the sendamil config file thus having the common case being two orders
> >of magnitude simpler than using Linuxconf.
> >
> >A little refinement would be to have this being a shell script using
> >TK (for niceness) if we are under X and just prompying ina case we are
> >not.  Finally, it should allow configuring fetchmail at the same time.
> >
> >--
> > Jean Francois Martinez
> >
> >Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
> >http://www.independence.seul.org
> >