Jim Flanagan wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
I blithered:
Not in 9.3 it didn't. .local will fail to work properly in 9.3.
I'm sorry, for some reason I got it into my head that you were running 9.3. But it's still true in 10.0, the default is linux.site. If you have .local in there, you either upgraded from an older installation and kept the old hostname, or you entered it manually
What should I name my machine? I've never been clear on that. Or rather what style should I use? My postfix book says to use an fqdn, but I haven't done that in the past. Can I just make it something like bob, or george, or something like that. I could use my fqdn jjfiii dot com, but for some reason I'm a bit reluctant to do that, I guess for if/when I change the machine out in the future.
You can give it any name you like. I have a machine at work that is called spamkill, though I configured postfix to announce itself as gateway. You can see the real machine name in the header lines but otherwise it doesn't really matter. My local server here at home is katgar.washu.lab, it's a fantasy name, but my local dns server knows that domain, so all is fine. (^-^) Though I do recommend to set at least $myhostname in postfix main.cf to the name that should be visible for external clients, in your case jjfiii.com. Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com