Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 10:54:27 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... Message-ID: <20070516105427.08403dbb@localhost> In-Reply-To: <00a401c7970d$cf443030$6400a8c0@msdi.local> References: <00a401c7970d$cf443030$6400a8c0@msdi.local>
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:26:36 -0400
"Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote:
[....]
> The problem, is that the mail is coming from
>
> root@localhost.mydomain.com
>
> We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying localhost.mydomain.com
> is invalid.
>
> Where can I change the address root@localhost.mydomain.com to
> machinename@mydomain.com ?
Hi Ian,
set your hostname in /etc/rc.conf:
it probably wouldn't hurt either to have name resolution properly setup (either via DNS or hosts file)
B
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