[Cialug] outgoing mail help

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

I tried uninstalling sendmail and installing postfix and WHAM...sendmail's
back... WTF?!  Is there any way to bypass using sendmail?!

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Corey Chandler <lists at sequestered.net>wrote:

> On 2/8/10 1:05 PM, jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
> > telnet fine on 587.
> >
> > got a lot of this in /var/log/mail.log:
> > Feb  8 13:00:01 <pcname> sm-msp-queue[16385]: My unqualified host name
> > (<pcname>) unknown; sleeping for retry
> > Feb  8 13:01:01 <pcname>sm-msp-queue[16385]: unable to qualify my own
> > domain name (<pcname>) -- using short name
> >
> > Will it not send without a fully qualified domain name?
> >
>
> You haven't configured sendmail correctly.
>
> I'm a postfix guy myself, so I'm not entirely sure what the steps are,
> but you need to tell sendmail what your hostname is in some fashion.
>
> -- Corey / KB1JWQ
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