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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:07:08 +0400
From:      Den <info@volginfo.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMTP vs sendmail
Message-ID:  <200209051807.08611.info@volginfo.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209051448040.28291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209051448040.28291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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On Thursday 05 September 2002 17:48, Jan Grant wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Den wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 September 2002 16:40, Jan Grant wrote:
> > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Den wrote:
> > > > every time I send mail, sendmail print error messages:
> > > > Sep  5 15:40:05 img sendmail[17883]: My unqualified host name (im=
g)
> > > > unknown; sleeping for retry
> > > > Sep  5 15:41:05 img sendmail[17883]: unable to qualify my own dom=
ain
> > > > 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 retur=
n
> > > > path (and maybe some other parameters) for all mail I send?
> > >
> > > If that's the problem, you should be able to fix it by adding an en=
try
> > > for your unqualified hostname to /etc/hosts.
> >
> > already added
> > but problem still alive
> > and wrong return path is much more difficult problem!
> > i can't recive answer to my send-pr message....
>
> You need to check the options to masquerade your domain. At least,
> that's what sendmail calls it, but you'll have to sort out the rest
> yourself, I'm afraid.
sendmail docs and conf is only for really crasy sysadmins, I think %)
what can I do with sendmail?
there is one really bad thing - I can't completly remove sendmail - but I=
 cat=20
replace it.
qmail is good candidate. :)


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