J. Craig Woods wrote: > civileme wrote: > >>OK, first of all you did not need to touch a wizard. Those are designed >>for one-time setup which is why we call them wizards. They are not >>tools to be used for maintenance, and they make a lot of assumptions, as >>is appropriate for their target audience (NT administrators). >> >>Next, _default_ performance in postfix is to gethostname from the system >>and use that, which indicates that you don't need to do anything with >>postfix configuration. You need to change your hostname, and that's >>all. You can do that with MandrakeControlCenter or linuxconf, just >>remember to restart desktops or there will be problems. >> >>There IS a problem with this. Brain-dead anti-spam tools have your IP >>on a DUL (dial-up-list) and that's one strike. Strike two+three is when >>they cannot authenticate your transmission name to an IP address, so a >>lot of mailservers won't relay your mail and some will reject it because >>it doesn't authenticate. >> >>There is a way around that, but it co$t$ money, at least $4/year. That >>is, since you have the domain name registered, you need the registered >>name pointed to a DNS server which will resolve to your (current) IP. >> Your machine can find and transmit its IP to the DNS server with a >>short script, and can update every 5 minutes in case you have a break in >>service and your IP address changes with the reconnection. The most >>reasonable place to have this service (that I have found) is >>www.whyi.org. He used to offer this service for free (as yi.org) but >>now he has costs to cover, so $4/year. >> >>I just finished a script that does something very similar, it transmits >>an IP address from a local machine to a remote ftp where the user has >>write access, like one of the free website places. It was to allow >>people on the road to reach their home computer through the internet by >>snatching the current IP address from a stable site and using it to >>address their own computer at home, through http or ssh or whatever it >>is running. It should be available to Mandrake Club members shortly. >> >>Civileme >> > > > As I have watched and read this thread over the months that Praedor has > been posting it, and re-wording it, I have come to the conclusion that > his problem has nothing whatsoever to do with any MTA, be it a sendmail > or a postfix setup issue. While you are right, Civ, about how to get the > MTA to work, the first *MOST* basic thing that must be done, for most > everything you will do with a server (including the ability to send and > receive email with your own privately running MTA), is to give your box > a FQDN. I know everybody is now shaking their heads, saying no shit doc, > this is a no brainer! But read Praedor's mail carefully or go back for > his earlier postings. The ability to give his server a FQDN is the *ONE* > task he cannot complete. For some unknown reasons, when he attempts to > give his box a name, other than the "localhost.localdomain", his machine > becomes foobarred to the max. > > Praedor, you need to help us understand why you can not complete the > simple task of naming a machine. Maybe you can send us some log file > entries that give us specific errors messages... > > drjung >
drjung, may he hasn't thought of one that he likes yet. maybe it's something unconcious about the name that screws everthing up. maybe it's something freudian. maybe I just have too much time on my hands and I'm full of shit! ;) Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR
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