From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 8 15:18:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676FE37B404 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from devil.tebokkel.com (ptb.xs4all.nl [80.126.6.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211C843E4A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@tebokkel.com) Received: from devil.tebokkel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by devil.tebokkel.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g98MIgKt004964; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:18:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from paul@devil.tebokkel.com) Received: (from paul@localhost) by devil.tebokkel.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g98MIgXR004963; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:18:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from paul) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:18:42 +0200 From: Paul te Bokkel To: jeppe@pingpong.net Cc: freebsd-newbies Subject: Re: /etc/hosts, hostname and mail Message-ID: <20021008221842.GA89384@tebokkel.com> References: <3DA17E9D.7040309@home.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA17E9D.7040309@home.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ' will work in this setup (or maybe mail @[ipnumber]). Regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message