[Cialug] outgoing mail help

Corey Chandler lists at sequestered.net
Mon Feb 8 13:07:33 CST 2010


On 2/8/10 1:05 PM, jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
> telnet fine on 587.
>
> got a lot of this in /var/log/mail.log:
> Feb  8 13:00:01 <pcname> sm-msp-queue[16385]: My unqualified host name
> (<pcname>) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Feb  8 13:01:01 <pcname>sm-msp-queue[16385]: unable to qualify my own
> domain name (<pcname>) -- using short name
>
> Will it not send without a fully qualified domain name?
>

You haven't configured sendmail correctly.

I'm a postfix guy myself, so I'm not entirely sure what the steps are, 
but you need to tell sendmail what your hostname is in some fashion.

-- Corey / KB1JWQ


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