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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2000 11:52:10 -0400
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        XF <gin@dds.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail
Message-ID:  <20000521115210.B96573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000521123216.A520@dds.nl>; from gin@dds.nl on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 12:32:16PM %2B0200
References:  <20000521123216.A520@dds.nl>

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On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 12:32:16PM +0200, XF wrote:
> 
> hello, i'm having some weird problems with sendmail
> i'm my log and terminal i see this:
> 
> May 21 23:34:54 Foobar sendmail[269]: My unqualified host name (Foobar) 
> unknown; sleeping for retry
> May 21 23:34:54 Foobar sendmail[269]: unable to qualify my own domain name
> (Foobar) -- using short name
> 
> what can i do about it without losing the hostname of my freebsd computer?
> it's on a LAN.

It looks like you have hostname and resolver problems. I guess
'Foobar' is your unqualified hostname? Why not 'Foobar.somewhere.org'
where 'somewhere.org' is chosen appropriately?

Besides these messages, does sendmail actually work?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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