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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:54:42 +0200
From:      Paul te Bokkel <paul@tebokkel.com>
To:        jeppe <jeppe@pingpong.net>
Cc:        Peter Hummers <phummers@iname.com>, freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /etc/hosts, hostname and mail
Message-ID:  <20021009155442.GA86796@tebokkel.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DA4195A.8070001@home.se>
References:  <20021007091431.F3137-100000@cakes.iguanas.org> <3DA4195A.8070001@home.se>

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:56:10PM +0200, Jesper Blomstr?m wrote:
> The problem is when I try to do like this:
> -->echo "po" | mail -s donotwork ttt@uuu.vv
> 
> Then I get this error message (a returned mail) saying that there is no 
> such domain like root@xxxx.yyy.zz

You're mail is being sent, but bounced since your self-chosen domain
does not exist. This can be either your ISP if you're using a
smarthost or the final destination (mail.uuu.vv), but that doesn't
matter. There's a big difference between local mail (almost anything
goes) and external mail.

> Of course there isn't but how shall i "masquerade" (is it called so?) 
> like xxxx.yyy.zz?

That wouldn't help, since xxxx.yyy.zz still would not exist to the
outside world. You might want to get a static IP / DNS-name from your
ISP or try using something like dhs.org.

> Do I have to use m4 to regenerate a cf-file from the config.mc-file or
> is there a nice and newbie-friendly-shortcut?

Yes, that _could_ help (but not with xxxx.yyy.zz), but that _really_
would go too far for this list (as this is over the top for Newbies, I
guess, but then again.. I'm also a newbie - with FreeBSD that is ;)

Regards,

Paul


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