From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 11:12:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF8837B416 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a213.otenet.gr [212.205.215.213]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2VJC3QA006605; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:12:04 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2VJC2Mv021758; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:12:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2VJC068021740; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:12:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:11:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nick Lozinsky Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname, domain name and mail problems Message-ID: <20020331191157.GA15456@hades.hell.gr> References: <3CA6DF7B.5FE3CFE7@wi.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CA6DF7B.5FE3CFE7@wi.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On 2002-03-31 04:05, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > I've installed FreeBSD 4.5, and set up my NIC card and the hostname and > domain name for the ISP was automatically specified in the NIC setup. I > left the settings as they were. Then I've installed mutt and have > attempted to read/send mail. When I try to send mail, whoever's email > address it be, I get an undelivered mail message using mail. It occurs > that my To: addresses are being converted to the host@ at my domain > name. So if I were to send a message to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org it > would try to send it ro freebsd-questions@myspecified.domain which, > obviously freebsd-questions is not on. So what do I need to do to get > this simple problem solved? This seems an awful lot like a misconfigured mail server. What mail server software are you using, and how is it configured? - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message