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Date:      Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:11:58 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hostname, domain name and mail problems
Message-ID:  <20020331191157.GA15456@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3CA6DF7B.5FE3CFE7@wi.rr.com>
References:  <3CA6DF7B.5FE3CFE7@wi.rr.com>

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On 2002-03-31 04:05, Nick Lozinsky wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD 4.5, and set up my NIC card and the hostname and
> domain name for the ISP was automatically specified in the NIC setup. I
> left the settings as they were. Then I've installed mutt and have
> attempted to read/send mail. When I try to send mail, whoever's email
> address it be, I get an undelivered mail message using mail. It occurs
> that my To: addresses are being converted to the host@ at my domain
> name. So if I were to send a message to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org it
> would try to send it ro freebsd-questions@myspecified.domain which,
> obviously freebsd-questions is not on. So what do I need to do to get
> this simple problem solved?

This seems an awful lot like a misconfigured mail server.  What mail server
software are you using, and how is it configured?

- Giorgos


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