Re: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...

From: Stijn Hoop (stijn_at_win.tue.nl)
Date: 11/29/05

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To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl>

    On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
    > I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to the internal
    > network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty creative,
    > right).
    >
    > However, sendmail doesn't seem to work correctly. When the machine boots
    > and/or I try and send an email using sendmail, I get a bunch of cryptic
    > error messages. Here's a view of the syslog:
    >
    > root@fileserver# tail /var/log/messages
    > Nov 29 13:51:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name
    > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
    > Nov 29 13:52:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: unable to qualify my own domain name
    > (fileserver) -- using short name
    > Nov 29 13:52:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: My unqualified host name
    > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
    > Nov 29 13:53:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: unable to qualify my own
    > domain name (fileserver) -- using short name
    > ...
    > Nov 29 13:56:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: My unqualified host name
    > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
    > Nov 29 13:57:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: unable to qualify my own domain
    > name (fileserver) -- using short name
    > ...
    >
    > Can anyone please help me?

    It's missing it's domain name apparently (i.e. the things after
    the first . in fileserver.my.domain.nl). Either make sure it's in the
    DNS or list it in /etc/hosts.

    --Stijn 

    -- 
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