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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:37:32 +0100
From:      Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>
To:        Den <info@volginfo.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMTP vs sendmail
Message-ID:  <20020905123732.GA11438@kierun.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209051634.31942.info@volginfo.ru>
References:  <200209051521.21926.info@volginfo.ru> <200209051531.09327.info@volginfo.ru> <m2it1k4o4h.fsf@set.ehsrealtime.com> <200209051634.31942.info@volginfo.ru>

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Quoth Den on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 16:34:31 +0400
> every time I send mail, sendmail print error messages:
> Sep  5 15:40:05 img sendmail[17883]: My unqualified host name (img) unknown; 
> sleeping for retry
> Sep  5 15:41:05 img sendmail[17883]: unable to qualify my own domain 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 return path (and 
> maybe some other parameters) for all mail I send?

AH, it is a DNS error...i think. I'm much more of an Exim person. Try
adding to /etc/hosts:
        img     10.0.0.10
and see if that helps -- assuming img is the name of your machine and
that it's IP is 10.0.0.10. 

Hope that helps.

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