Nope, I've already had that set from before. Was one of the first things I checked among many. Still can't start it with a regular hostname listed. Going to give up on the why and just leave the hostname as the domain name as that appears to work. Now if anybody knows why, when I host...
The message I get is this:
Sep 12 12:18:38 deimos sendmail[13260]: My unqualified host name (mail) unknown; sleeping for retry
Ahh, this might be the clue. Changed hostname to mail.domainname.com and appears to be working fine now. Not sure if that's how it's supposed to be or if just the...
Nope Keith, that didn't work either. I'm almost ready to give up hope. Tried it that way, even got creative and tried different variations to no avail. After change, restart sendmail, and it doesn't start back up. Break process change hostname back to mydomain.com and it starts up like a...
Tried that to no avail. Maybe it's something near the top...here's what I have from parts of my sendmail.cf file. maybe this will help.
# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
#Dj$w.dakio.net
Cwdakio.net
CP.
# "Smart"...
I know this is a noob question, but noob I am. How or what do I configure in my sendmail.cf file to designate a specific default domain name? I have to set my hostname to blah.com in order for sendmail to even start. If I change my hostname to 'bingo' after it starts, all e-mails are...
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