Re: Help keep a Linux user in the fold! (SOLVED)

2000-08-08 Thread Chuck Mead
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. spewed into the bitstream: MLMJ>Wanted to say thanks to everyone who responded both on and off list MLMJ>for the ideas. MLMJ> MLMJ>Seems that a bit more reading was in order; that was sone, and MLMJ>everything seems to be running smoothly now. MLMJ> ML

RE: Help keep a Linux user in the fold!

2000-08-08 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
If the mail accounts are all on the local linux box (that's how I do mine), then it is nothing but an e-mail address change for your users... For instance, if your old machine name was box.sucky.isp.com and user's mail address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] now, under the new ISP, if you have a static IP

Re: Help keep a Linux user in the fold!

2000-08-07 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 07 Aug 2000 22:09 "Merell L. Matlock, Jr." wrote: >1. What should my hostname be set to? Anything you like. >2. There are some email issues. > > 1. Most of my family uses (uck) Netscape mail. Their local > usernames are *not* the same as the usernames on the bellsouth >

Re: Help keep a Linux user in the fold!

2000-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: > Hi folks, > > Hair pulling situation. > > My current ISP has started sucking big-time, and I need to change. > > Unfortunately, not too many choices here in backwoods, bum-fu*k GA, so > I am forced to go with bellsouth.net *NOT* the dsl ver