Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:18:42 +0200 From: Paul te Bokkel <paul@tebokkel.com> To: jeppe@pingpong.net Cc: freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /etc/hosts, hostname and mail Message-ID: <20021008221842.GA89384@tebokkel.com> In-Reply-To: <3DA17E9D.7040309@home.se> References: <3DA17E9D.7040309@home.se>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:31:25PM +0200, Jesper Blomstr?m wrote: > Dear FreeBSD-experts, > > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain > > I do not have an own domain I just want my mail to work. > My hostname is set to xxxxx and when I try to send a mail > via the consol > I get: > Domain of sender address root@localhost.my.domain > does not exist. Try using 'localhost.localdomain' instead of 'localhost.my.domain'. You're mailer is probably trying to resolve the TLD .domain, which is not valid. Furthermore, mailing depends heavily on DNS, so there's a chance only 'mail <localaccount>' will work in this setup (or maybe mail <account | alias>@[ipnumber]). Regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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