[TriLUG] Newbie Hostname Configuration Question

[Robby Dermody]

I've found qmail very finicky in this respect as you have.

I've tried a lot of things but as it is, I can't keep it from specifying the
FQDN for the domain which the machine's hostname is part of. (i.e. if the
hostname, in my case is naomi.allshotup.org, and I use robbyd at allshotup.org
as my email, qmail will rewrite this as robbyd at naomi.allshotup.org) ...it's
a cosmetic thing, but an annoying one at that. This is with vmailmgr and all
that, and I'll probably switch to postfix the next time I have any problems
with qmail, lol. You might want to try using some non fully qualified
hostname (i.e. in my case just naomi, not naomi.allshotup.org or what not)
then start qmail and watch your syslog and messages (the smtp daemon will
complain loudly if I remember correctly if you're off :) Qmail works fine,
for me it was just getting the thing set up in the first place with multiple
domains.

Robby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Naylor" <anaylor at nc.rr.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Newbie Hostname Configuration Question


> Does it benefit me to put a FQDN in now such as matisse.foo.org or just
> matisse.
>
> My aim is to install Apache and qmail and run it very low usage. I'm
sitting
> behind a Linksys router which forwards the appropriate ports to this
> machine.
>
> I would think it doesn't matter because of the port forwarding. But I
> haven't gotten it right yet with concerns to qmail.
> TIA,
>
> Andy...
>
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