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	Re: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
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Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> writes:

> how do you fix this ?
> 
> Feb  2 12:09:22 I sm-mta[699]: My unqualified host name (localhost)
> unknown; sle eping for retry

Make sure the host's names (including localhost) are defined in
/etc/hosts, and that /etc/hosts is being used in name resolution 
(on 5.3 that would be configuration via nsswitch.conf(5)).