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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:40:08 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Den <info@volginfo.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMTP vs sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209051339371.28291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200209051634.31942.info@volginfo.ru>

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Den wrote:

> 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?

If that's the problem, you should be able to fix it by adding an entry
for your unqualified hostname to /etc/hosts.


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