I don't know about postfix, but sendmail is unhappy when it can't look up it's FQDN. You need to have an entry in /etc/hosts for your reverse DNS if your provided /etc/resolv.conf don't provide the necessary info to sendmail on startup. Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: John N. Alegre [mailto:listhub@libros.andante.mn.org] Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 6:14 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SMTP and incomming mail -- PROBLEMS?? Thanks for your continued comments Mike, Hosts is only used as a DNS replacement. It is not used at all on incomming packets. What you suggest should have no effect on incomming smtp. All outgoing mail works fine. As far as HOSTNAME, I think, someone correct me if I am wrong, that since I have a static IP on the net 24/7 via DSL that the entry in HOSTNAME for machine.domainname is correct. john On 22-May-04 Mike Kenzie wrote:
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On Saturday 22 May 2004 15:30, John N. Alegre wrote:
Mike,
On 22-May-04 Mike Kenzie wrote:
this sound related to my problem 'postfix and kmail'
What is in /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hosts?
I am far from an expert on this but I don't think either of these files have anything to do with receiving or delivering mail on a smtp
port via postfix. I will post them on the off chance that I am wrong. Names changed to protect the innocent;-)
HOSTNAME
somemachine.mydomain
I have linux.local
hosts
# Lots of comments deleted 127.0.0.1 localhost
I also have a 127.0.0.2 linux.local
I'm not sure where this comes form but it rejects mail with that name
Does anyone else have any comments on the original question that might be helpful?
look in yast for Network services/ Mail Transfer Agent/ outgoing mail / masquerading I think you need to list the domains there.
Problems ...
I can not get mail into the machine, or, if it does come in it is rejected. I do not know which. I know postfix is working as I can do ...
what is in the mail logs? mail.info mail.warn
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