From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 23:29:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FE9C37B408 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32494 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jun 2002 06:29:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gmx.net) (217.110.34.96) by mail.gmx.net (mp002-rz3) with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 06:29:41 -0000 Message-ID: <3D180DC8.2030403@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:29:28 +0200 From: Sunny Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020420 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd && postfix Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello people, -i am running FreeBSD 4.4release with postfix-1.1.11. -in main.cf i have set myhostname/mydomain/myorigin -postconf -n shows me that all of those parameters are set correctly. still postfix seems to get *its hostname* from gethostname(). when i do "hostname " suddenly it starts working. i'd prefer to set the hostname in main.cf though. on my linux box it works like charm. i have run diff on both main.cf's (might sound ridiculous yes...) and have found nothing which could cause the different behaviour. did i mention that some freemailers do not receive mail from this box because they cannot resolve its address?! anyone who has experienced similar problems? any hints will be highly appreciated. ps. if this question is moron ignore it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message