I am on a Mandrake 7.0 machine trying to set up a mail transport. I tried postfix and sendmail and now trying smail. The goal is just to move mail retrieved via fetchmail through the system to the Unix mailbox /var/spool/mail. The user does not want to use Netscape for mail. The error message in the smail logfile is below. The hostname is set in all of the /etc files. The following is /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 cyrix.bigMa.net 0 # 0 0.0.0.0 netdomain.name.com 1 # 1 I am brand new to Mandrake but have used SuSE before and Debian briefly. Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong? Phil 06/28/2000 19:18:27: pid 409: SIGTERM received, shutting down daemon. 06/28/2000 19:19:39: pid 407: smail daemon started 06/28/2000 19:20:56: pid 407: SIGTERM received, shutting down daemon. 06/28/2000 19:22:06: pid 411: smail daemon started 06/28/2000 19:24:18: remote EHLO: invalid operand: 'localhost': from (cyrix.bigMa.net) source [127.0.0.1]: hostname must contain a '.'. 06/28/2000 19:24:18: remote HELO: invalid operand: 'localhost': from (cyrix.bigMa.net) source [127.0.0.1]: hostname must contain a '.'. 06/28/2000 19:24:30: remote EHLO: invalid operand: 'localhost': from (cyrix.bigMa.net) source [127.0.0.1]: hostname must contain a '.'. 06/28/2000 19:24:31: remote HELO: invalid operand: 'localhost': from (cyrix.bigMa.net) source [127.0.0.1]: hostname must contain a '.'.
