From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 1:37:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1A0037B403 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31851 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jun 2002 08:37:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gmx.net) (217.110.34.96) by mail.gmx.net (mp005-rz3) with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 08:37:23 -0000 Message-ID: <3D182BC3.70801@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:37:23 +0200 From: Sunny Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020420 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon J Mudd Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd && postfix References: <3D180DC8.2030403@gmx.net> <86wusnzt21.fsf@unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Simon J Mudd wrote: >s.dale@gmx.net (Sunny Dale) writes: > > > >>hello people, >>-i am running FreeBSD 4.4release with postfix-1.1.11. >>-in main.cf i have set myhostname/mydomain/myorigin >>-postconf -n shows me that all of those parameters are set correctly. >> >>still postfix seems to get *its hostname* from gethostname(). when i >>do "hostname " suddenly it starts working. i'd prefer to set the >>hostname in main.cf though. >> >> > >Wietse, the author, uses Postfix as his development platform. The >symptoms you report appear to be rather strange. Perhaps it would >help if you showed us. > >>From postfix stopped: >1. the output of postconf -n >2. the output of postfix start (if this is how you start postfix) >3. the log entries which show that Postfix doesn't like/use the >hostname in main.cf >4. you may need to enable debugging information in the part of Postfix >which is failing (add a -v to the entry in /etc/postfix/master.cf) > > > >>ps. if this question is moron ignore it. >> >> > >The question appears strange but you not shown _any_ information to >back up what you say, so the symptoms may be related to something >else. > >Show us the output and perhaps we can determine what is happening. > >Simon >-- >Simon J Mudd, Tel: +34-91-408 4878, Mobile: +34-605-085 219 >Madrid, Spain. email: sjmudd@pobox.com, Postfix RPM Packager > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > i have put the requested information on: http://217.110.232.171/index.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message