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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Susan O'Brien" <srobrien@mss.mmr.lucent.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518155727.9951T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35609BB3.AAD62767@mss.lucent.com>

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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Susan O'Brien wrote:

> I'm sorry I have to bug you with this question, but sending mail to you
> was my very last resort.
> 
> I am a new user to FreeBSD but not to UNIX.  Although I'm not real
> familiar with sendmail.
> 
> According to all the documentation I've been gathering, I should be able
> to use the default setup for sendmail, set up my IP addresses and host
> names and it should work.
> 
> It isn't.  Here's the messages I'm receiving:
> 
> May 18 14:14:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: My unqualified host name
> (canetsoft) unknown; sleeping for retry
> May 18 14:15:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: unable to qualify my own
> domain name (canetsoft) -- using short name
> 
> I think I'm really confused as to what files I need to modify so that
> sendmail knows my host and domain name.

It can't figure out what your entire domain name is (ie canetsoft.com).
Make sure it's added to /etc/hosts.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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