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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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