SUMMARY: Sendmail Configuration

From: gerald <galien11_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:07:41 -0800 (PST)

I want to thank all those who responded (I have pasted
their response at the end of this mail). I solved my
problem by adding the HOST.Domain alias in the
/etc/hosts file. I also stopped the sendmail daemon. I
dont really need it because I dont send and receive
external mail. My apologise for a late summary to
those who wrote wishing to share the summary

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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 09:24:53 +0100
From: Nikola Milutinovic

Why don't you just simply configure it? Run
"mailsetup" and answer
those
questions.

Nix.

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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 08:53:06 -0600 (CST) 
From: J Bacher <jb_at_jbacher.com>  
This is a /etc/hosts and bind issue.  If this server
is not running DNS 
as
primary or secondary, it must be listed in the primary
DNS server's
database.
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:03:59 +0100 
From: system administration account
<sysadmin_at_astro.su.se>  
Stopping the sendmail daemon only affects incoming
mail.
You probably have some processes that send mail out to
other
machines (e.g., cron, when something goes wrong in
executing
a crontab file entry), and these will result in one
invocation
of sendmail per message.
My guess is that you need to add your own IP address
and host name
in /etc/hosts.
Also, if you don't have a top level domain name (e.g.,
because
this is an isolated network) you may get into all
sorts of trouble
because of software that expects you to have one. Use
something like
".local" if that's a concern.
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From: "O'Brien, Pat" <pobrien_at_mitidata.com>  
run mailconfig .  slect quick setup and point the
relay to your normal 
mail
server within the same domain.. the errors will stop. 
mail may bounce
around some emails.  read roots email with mail to see
what is being 
sent or
read the actual items in /var/spool/mqueue/af****
df****.
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From: "Staab, Brian" <Brian.Staab_at_COMPAQ.com>  
Try adding an alias in your /etc/hosts file; for
example: if your 
hostname
is
"gerald"  --  add aliases "gerald.domain"  and 
"gerald.domain.com"
I have seen this resolve those messages.
Brian R. Staab
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Received on Tue Dec 12 2000 - 09:54:57 NZDT