From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 15:58:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00739 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00601 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10353; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Susan O'Brien" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail In-Reply-To: <35609BB3.AAD62767@mss.lucent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 May 1998, Susan O'Brien wrote: > I'm sorry I have to bug you with this question, but sending mail to you > was my very last resort. > > I am a new user to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. Although I'm not real > familiar with sendmail. > > According to all the documentation I've been gathering, I should be able > to use the default setup for sendmail, set up my IP addresses and host > names and it should work. > > It isn't. Here's the messages I'm receiving: > > May 18 14:14:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: My unqualified host name > (canetsoft) unknown; sleeping for retry > May 18 14:15:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: unable to qualify my own > domain name (canetsoft) -- using short name > > I think I'm really confused as to what files I need to modify so that > sendmail knows my host and domain name. It can't figure out what your entire domain name is (ie canetsoft.com). Make sure it's added to /etc/hosts. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message