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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:48:49 +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.4.44.0209051448040.28291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200209051659.18512.info@volginfo.ru>

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Den wrote:

> On Thursday 05 September 2002 16:40, Jan Grant wrote:
> > 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.
> already added
> but problem still alive
> and wrong return path is much more difficult problem!
> i can't recive answer to my send-pr message....

You need to check the options to masquerade your domain. At least,
that's what sendmail calls it, but you'll have to sort out the rest
yourself, I'm afraid.


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