Hello, having not much knowledge and even less experience in running and configuring sendmail I'm asking on this list for help, probably a more experienced sendmail guru can help:
I run the debian postinst configuration script and sendmailconfig twice and it still gives me the following warning at the end: Winona:2# sendmailconfig Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] y Generating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf from /etc/mail/sendmail.mc ... Updating alias database ... WARNING: local host name (Winona) is not qualified; fix $j in config file Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] Reloading sendmail ... How do I fix $j ? What is this? My hostname is qualified. hostname and domainname find the correct values (the machine should be Winona.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE). In the log file sendmail writes the following Aug 3 22:39:44 Winona sendmail[883]: starting daemon (8.8.5): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 Aug 3 22:40:18 Winona sendmail[882]: unable to qualify my own domain name (Winona) -- using short name Is there missing something (domainname returns Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE)? My sendmail.mc file contains (comments stripped): divert(-1) divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.7 (Linux) 3/5/96') OSTYPE(debian)dnl FEATURE(nullclient, diamant.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE)dnl FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE)dnl ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) The MASQUERADE_AS will change the from header to my ISP's (university) mail address, which is what I want. Sendmail reports this feature correctly in the logs. diamant is out smtp server. So my questions/ problems are the following: 1) Sending mail to my hostname (Winona) is sent to my ISP, which is obviously wrong. But sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works. 2) Can I use the MASQUERADE_AS option to change the user name for my university account as well? 3) Sendmail and mailq takes over 1 minute time to give the output. strace shows that it gets stuck in a pause-systemcall after setting a timer to 60 secs. Is this a technical (not the configuration) problem? I installed the 8.8.5-1 package version of the debian 1.2.x series. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; speed has got 5 letters so has death -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .