[techtalk] News Reader Question

[aprilk]

Stephan, what is happening is the news readers are using the default domain
on your computer which is 'localhost'. In your preferences for them it should want to know what your username for your email is and what the domain is. The path with the exclamation point is what is called a 'bang' path used in older email systems.

April


Stephan Zaniolo <eaglefeather at mindspring.com> wrote:
>	I have just switched over to xrn as my news reader, but I had been using
>K-news (and before that X-News under Windows :^).  Both news readers think
>my e-mail is login at localhost.  How do I change this to my correct e-mail
>address?  (And I don't want to re-type it every time I'm going to send a
>message.)  Also, I noticed in xrn that it has a "path" line that contains
>localhost!login.  What does this mean?  Should I change it?  How do I
>change it?  I don't have a local news server (I'm still migrating from
>windows), everything is read straight from, and sent straight to,
>news.mindspring.com.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Stephan
>
>PS.  If it matters, I'm running Red Hat 6.1, October GNOME, and kernel 2.2.12.
>
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