sendmail problem

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:14, Mike.Kent at indystar.com wrote:
> Yes, you are correct, /etc/hosts does seem to be the key but what I've
> run into is that changing the 127.0.0.1 line by making the hostname
> fully qualified breaks other things on production servers. I'll
> probably wind up using define(`confDOMAIN_NAME’, `xx.xx.xx')dnl to set
> macro $j in sendmail.cf. That effectively bypasses the /etc/hosts
> issue.

It's not /etc/hosts.  It is the system hostname, which you
can set with the hostname command or with the fedora GUI
system-config-network program.  Sendmail must be restarted to
pick up the new name.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com