Re: [UUG/MLUG] A note on mail - problem (still)

[Bryan Venable <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The problem still seems to be that the machine thinks it's
biosci.missouri.edu but its name in DNS is thinker.missouri.edu.  So if you
send mail to EMAIL:PROTECTED it thinks it needs to relay the mail
because it doesn't recognize thinker.missouri.edu as the name of the machine
or as an alternate name for the machine.  So the solution is to either
change the internal hostname of the machine or tell sendmail to accept mail
address to thinker.missouri.edu.

I'd recommend you change the internal hostname of the machine unless you
plan to change the DNS record.  You can do this with the GUI network tool in
the control panel under X, or by editing /etc/sysconfig/network and
/etc/hosts.  Once the change has been made, you should probably reboot.

If you don't want to change the internal hostname, just type:

echo thinker.missouri.edu >> /etc/sendmail.cw

(since you're using sendmail 8.8.x, for 8.9.x it's /etc/mail/sendmail.cw)
and restart sendmail ('/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart' should do it).

      Bryan Venable | Technical Coordinator | Virtual Online University
                http://www.spif.com/ | http://www.vousi.com/

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> Ok, I'm still having this problem whenever I try and send mail to one of
> my user accounts on machine.  Anyone have any suggestions? (btw, emailing
> root does the same thing).