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Date:      Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:43:30 +0100
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...
Message-ID:  <20051129134330.GI33851@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <000401c5f4e8$56f27f10$2101a8c0@ZGISH>
References:  <000401c5f4e8$56f27f10$2101a8c0@ZGISH>

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to the internal
> network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty creative,
> right).
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> 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 n=
ame
> (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
> ...
>=20
> Can anyone please help me?

It's missing it's domain name apparently (i.e. the things after
the first . in fileserver.my.domain.nl). Either make sure it's in the
DNS or list it in /etc/hosts.

--Stijn

--=20
Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already
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killed.
		-- G.K. Chesterton

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