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Subject: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...
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I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to the internal
network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty creative,
right).

However, sendmail doesn't seem to work correctly. When the machine boots
and/or I try and send an email using sendmail, I get a bunch of cryptic
error messages. Here's a view of the syslog:

root@fileserver# tail /var/log/messages
Nov 29 13:51:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name
(fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov 29 13:52:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: unable to qualify my own domain =
name
(fileserver) -- using short name
Nov 29 13:52:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: My unqualified host name
(fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov 29 13:53:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: unable to qualify my own
domain name (fileserver) -- using short name
...
Nov 29 13:56:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: My unqualified host name
(fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov 29 13:57:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: unable to qualify my own =
domain
name (fileserver) -- using short name
...

Can anyone please help me?

--=20
Kiffin Rex Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands