[wellylug] sendmail - enough for today!

[Enkidu]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -1200, you wrote:

>Hi again
>
>On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:29:00 +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
>> 
>> Aug 24 13:20:48 synagogue postfix/qmgr[14869]: 14C5A8405E4: from=<lyndsay at ihug.co.nz>, size=1204, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>> Aug 24 13:20:48 synagogue postfix/local[17262]: 14C5A8405E4: to=<wellylug at synagogue.naos.co.nz>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent ("|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post wellylug")
>> 
>> which means that the From address is now being set to "lyndsay at ihug.co.nz".
>> 
>
>How do I make it say persian13 at ihug.co.nz ?
>
>> 
>> Your machine still calls itself "localhost.localdomain":
>> 
>
>What should my machine be called?  I thought it was called Mercury, in the /etc/hosts
>it says localhost Mercury. Is the domain a problem as before as I dont have one?
>
Your machine is called mercury (if you gave it that name on setup).
What the hosts file does is relates IP address to host (aka machine)
names.

If you have in your hosts file the following

<yourIPaddr> localhost.localdomain localhost mercury venus mars

then this associates your IP address with the *names*:
localhost.localdomain
localhost
mercury
venus
mars

If you have the IP address as 127.0.0.1 then this aliases the local
machine to all those names.

Cheers,

Cliff
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