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Re: trying to change my email address
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:11:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Juergen Stuber writes:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to change my email address (the one that is
> reported in my news postings) from juergen@mpi-sb.mpg.de
> to stuber@loria.fr, but I'm having no luck.
>
> I tried
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> DATA:
> True Name: Juergen Stuber
> True E-mail: stuber@loria.fr
> News Name: Juergen Stuber
> News E-mail: stuber@loria.fr
>
> which goes through but has no effect.
Hello Juergen,
When you say "has no effect," what did you expect to happen? That is, what
did you do which had no effect but should have?
> Then I thought the NNTP server might be looking at the sender,
> which is juergen@lundi. lundi is my private notebook,
> I'm `juergen' there but `stuber' on LORIA's systems.
> When I try that the setup complains
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> FORM:
> http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/setup/
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> RESULTS:
> There is a problem with the information you submitted. Please fill out
> the form again to correct the problem.
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> DETAILS/COMMENTS:
> email address mismatch
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> DATA:
> True Name: Juergen Stuber
> True E-mail: stuber@loria.fr
> News Name: Juergen Stuber
> News E-mail: juergen@lundi
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> Any ideas?
It looks like you're all set -- you just need to get your newsreader to send
the following 'From:' line header:
From: Juergen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
Looking in the dead-articles file on the server, I don't see any rejected
messages from you under that name or from 'lundi'. Do you get any error
message when you try to post?
--Todd
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| (...) That was indeed the problem, it is working now. I did't see the From header when I submitted, and had assumed it was generated by lugnet based on some other info(?), while in fact in my .emacs an instance of the old address had survived. Maybe (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| Hi! I'm trying to change my email address (the one that is reported in my news postings) from juergen@mpi-sb.mpg.de to stuber@loria.fr, but I'm having no luck. I tried DATA: True Name: Juergen Stuber True E-mail: stuber@loria.fr News Name: Juergen (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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