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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:15:25 -0500
From:      "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
To:        "'Scott Saunders'" <sssss@spongocoel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Sendmail is sleepy - SOLVED (sort of)
Message-ID:  <002801c372de$38b24820$04fea8c0@moe>
In-Reply-To: <B94A5239-DE70-11D7-9997-003065D644E8@spongocoel.com>

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> > The fact that the FQDN for this box is simply 'larry' is=20
> the cause of
> > the problem...?
>=20
> Yes. Sort of. As I understand it, 'larry' isn't enough to get be an=20
> entire FQDN. So, really, it's not a FQDN, since 'larry' isn't a top=20
> level domain like 'com' or 'org'. But, more simply, yes,=20
> that's part of=20
> the problem.

After much frustration, I deleted every .cf file in /etc/mail, and
edited every .mc file to include the line:
Define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `howse.no-ip.org')
Then ran:
# make cf
# make install

That still didn't work.

I remembered that I use a Dynamic DNS service called noip.com to resolve
my dynamic ip to 'howse.no-ip.org' on my Linux box, so I changed my
hostname from 'larry' to 'larry.howse.no-ip.org'.
That fixed it!

Now, when I get mail from FBSD, it comes from root@howse.no-ip.org.
Hoooray!





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