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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 10:54:27 +1000
From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To: "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:26:36 -0400
"Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote:

[....]
> The problem, is that the mail is coming from
> 
> root@localhost.mydomain.com
> 
> We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying localhost.mydomain.com
> is invalid.
> 
> Where can I change the address root@localhost.mydomain.com to
> machinename@mydomain.com ?

Hi Ian,
set your hostname in /etc/rc.conf:

it probably wouldn't hurt either to have name resolution properly setup (either via DNS or hosts file)

B
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