Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:18:06 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Configuration error Message-ID: <96Mar18.111820pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:36:11 PST." <9603181436.AA00923@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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Your problem is that sendmail needs to know its hostname; if the host name is going to be dynamically assigned then sendmail needs to get restarted every time you get a new host name. If you restart your sendmail after setting your hostname to ppp02p03.ucc.uconn.edu (or whatever you get assigned), then email will work. You won't have very nice return addresses, though, since presumably someone else will get that hostname next time they connect. The easiest way to handle this situation is to ask uconn if you can get a statically assigned address. Otherwise, you're going to have to register your own domain and figure out how to get the MX record to always point to the dynamic address that you currently have. Bill
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