Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:47:43 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org> Cc: Den <info@volginfo.ru>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMTP vs sendmail Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209051446560.28291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020905123732.GA11438@kierun.org>
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Yann Golanski wrote: > Quoth Den on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 16:34:31 +0400 > > every time I send mail, sendmail print error messages: > > Sep 5 15:40:05 img sendmail[17883]: My unqualified host name (img) unknown; > > sleeping for retry > > Sep 5 15:41:05 img sendmail[17883]: unable to qualify my own domain name > > (img) -- using short name > > > > my host (named img) is in local network, and return path is "sg <sg@img>", if > > I send mail using sendmail. > > > > Is it possible to disable this error messages and customise return path (and > > maybe some other parameters) for all mail I send? > > AH, it is a DNS error...i think. I'm much more of an Exim person. Try > adding to /etc/hosts: > img 10.0.0.10 > and see if that helps -- assuming img is the name of your machine and > that it's IP is 10.0.0.10. > > Hope that helps. It might if you switch the columns of that around. 10.0.0.10 img -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Theory and practice _are_ the same thing. In theory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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