On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 17:01, Derek Jennings wrote: <Criky large snip>
> On Sunday 04 Jul 2004 18:27, Terence Golightly wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 12:41, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > On Sunday 04 Jul 2004 16:58, Terence Golightly wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 11:45, Derek Jennings wrote: > After reading your post again Terry. Are you saying that you set the hostname > to myhouse.net yourself? In which case you have not been hacked, but have > simply used someone elses domain name. > Yes by accident :) > In which case of course there is no need to reinstall. Just set the domain > names correctly, both in /etc/sysconfig/network an /etc/postfix/main.cf > If you do not intend your mailserver to receive mail, then you do not need a > registered domain name. Something like localhost.localdomain is fine. > If however you do want to receive mail then a registered domain name is > required. www.dyndns.org can supply you with a domain name and DNS service > absolutely free. Its what I use myself. > Yes eventually. Thats why I have a sort of 'homemade' domain. I edited main.cf changing everything over to localhost.localdomain. But I'd prefer to eventually set it up to use my local mailserver with fetchmail sort of like on your web site but only one machine. That main.cf file: confusing. Thanks, Terryg > derek Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB 20:32:59 up 1 day, 7:36, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.36, 0.21 I'm still waiting for the advent of the computer science groupie.
# These are only the parameters changed from a default install # see /etc/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, fuller version of this file. # These are changed by postfix install script readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.1.1/README_FILES sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.1.1/samples html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.1.1/html sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix setgid_group = postdrop command_directory = /usr/sbin manpage_directory = /usr/share/man daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix mail_owner = postfix # User configurable parameters inet_interfaces = $myhostname,localhost mynetworks_style = host mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain delay_warning_time = 4h smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version) (Mandrake Linux) unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450 smtp-filter_destination_concurrency_limit = 2 lmtp-filter_destination_concurrency_limit = 2 smtpd_sasl_path = /etc/postfix/sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2 myhostname = localhost.localdomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical mydomain = myhouse.localnet masquerade_domains = myorigin = localhost.localdomain debug_peer_list = localhost.localdomain
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