Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:59:23 +0200 From: Heiner Strauss <heiner@bilch.com> To: Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail - Qualify Domain name??? Message-ID: <3B3C5F8A.FAA1A403@bilch.com> References: <20010628092024.80557.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com>
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Gavin Kenny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting messages in the console from sendmail
> saying "Unable to qualify domain name - using short
> name".
The machine doesn't have a domainname set in rc.conf
If you don't want this you could tell sendmail what
the domainname is. Take a look at sendmail.cf or
your mc file.
>
>
> What does this mean? And why is Sendmail doing
> anything as I thought I'd turned it off by putting
> sendmail_enable="NO" in rc.conf
Because every FreeBSD machine is sending mail
at about 2:00 am. You have just disabled sendmail
as a deamon. Watch your crontab.
>
>
> thanks
>
> Gavin
>
You are welcome
Heiner
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