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From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: hostname, domain name and mail problems
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:14:05 -0600
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: hostname, domain name and mail problems


> 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
>

I am using all the standard stuff that FreeBSD installs. sendmail, mail and
mutt. I don not have a domain name, so do I create  a fake one then on my
BSD system? What can my hostname on the BSD box be?

Please help.


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