Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:31:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jesper_Blomstr=F6m?= <jesper.b@home.se> To: freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: /etc/hosts, hostname and mail Message-ID: <3DA17E9D.7040309@home.se>
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Dear FreeBSD-experts, I canīt get my mail to work properly and I think itīs because I donīt know what to write into the file /etc/hosts Default I think the file looks /looked something like this (the two critical lines): ::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. I understand that Iīm using a fake domain but what shall I write? If I try to send a mail from X/Mozilla I get something like: "unable to connect to your smtp please check your lousy system". I have tried setting outgoing mailserver to "localhost" and to my ISP:s smtp but it doesnīt change anyting. I get the samt error-message. My questions to you: 1. Can I set my hostname to anything I want? 2. How shall my (according to question nr.1) /etc/hosts-file look like? 3. Is there anyting else I need to do? Many thanks from a frustrated. / Jeppe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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