From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 20:24:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516C4106572A for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:24:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9241A8FC1A for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3A935E80869; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:24:23 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bas Smeelen Message-ID: <20100929202423.GB13004@thought.org> References: <20100928162839.GA32198@thought.org> <7B0DAD9C-ED75-4188-9407-F86F44C94F47@cwis.biz> <19639A29-A22D-474B-8CD6-E62D2A4CCB15@cwis.biz> <4CA2D921.2080402@ose.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA2D921.2080402@ose.nl> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:24:21 -0000 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:13:53AM +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote: > > >> You can't have a sending domain as thought.org if the @ record for thought.org doesn't exist, IIRC. > >> > >> Look to your DNS for the solution, IMNSHO. > No MX for thought.org > It did have a SOA a minute ago, but this is gone also > >>> > >>> By default, postfix was installed on my ubuntu desktop. I am not > >>> familiar with it. I would =like= it to be sending mail to my server > >>> without the $HOST name instead of $HOST.$DOMAIN name. I know there are > >>> a bunch of us who use this kind of setup: FreeBSD for server things and > >>> some version of linux as a desktop. > >>> > >>> Really, this looks like a postfix blunder. How do I tell postfix to > >>> rewrite th e outgoing address without the hostname? > >>> > This is a postfix question. > Modify main.cf and set myorigin I guess? > http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html > Yes! changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my server cleanly, thanks for the tip. I still don't understand what's wrong with my DNS files. Hopefully, other folk on-list will see what's messed up. -gary > > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is for the intended recipient(s) only. Access, disclosure, copying, > distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited. If you have received it > by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org