Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:38:53 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname, domain name and mail problems Message-ID: <20020331223755.O1797-100000@hades> In-Reply-To: <003501c1d8e8$39a1c580$93611f41@none>
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On 2002-03-31 13:14, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > ----- 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 > > 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. You can have any hostname you want (well, as long as it is one that is not used already by someone else). At home, I'm using hades.hell.gr as my hostname, since I know that hell.gr is an unlikely domain name to be registered in Greece. This doesn't prevent Sendmail from masquerading all my outgoing mail with the proper From: headers and envelope addresses. Sendmail that you are using, keeps it's configuration files in /etc/mail. Mutt reads it's configuration from /usr/local/etc/Muttrc and ~/.muttrc. Since both Sendmail and mutt are complex and versatile programs, certain configuration options of either program can have the effect that you are describing. Without knowing what their configuration files include, it's only guesswork that can help you. So, how is Sendmail and your mail client configured? - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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