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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:59:59 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Cable

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Ray Davison wrote:
>
> How about a SCOUG session on acquiring
> a domain and what to do with it.

Great idea! Since you'll be giving the session, can I help you with
anything?

> SENDMAIL is not in the startup folder, but TCP/IP Startup is. That object
> runs TCPSTART which contains:
> start /min sendmail -bd -q30m -CE:\MPTN\ETC\sendmail.uml

That line starts SendMail as a server (-bd) and processes any email in
its queue every 30 minutes (-q30m). It uses \MPTN\ETC\sendmail.uml as
its configuration file.

Note that just because SendMail is running you don't have to use it.
It's simply another mail server on your network, just like your ISP has
a mail server on your network. If you tell your mail client (I see
you're using Netscape 4.61) to use your SendMail instead of your ISP's
(charter.net) mail server then your mail client (Netscape 4.61) will
send your messages to your SendMail instead of to your ISP. Once any of
these servers gets your email message then it looks up the DNS entry
you've specified and gets the domain's dotted decimal address, then it
sends the message to that address.

> The following works fine
> wget.exe -c ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/...
> (but)
> AUTOGET/2 waited patiently for an internet connection,
> AUTOWGET put up an error box saying there was no connection.

Hmm. Ray, do these AUTO*GET* programs have configuration files? Is it
possible that they are trying to get to the DNS server on your _old_ ISP
rather than the DNS server on your _new_ ISP, and your old ISP's DNS
server doesn't allow outside connections?

- Peter

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