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sendmail mailx question

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dandan123

dandan123

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I'm sending mail from box A to myself, but the message says it's sent from BoxB.

Where is the hostname configured on sendmail/mailx ?
 
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It doesn't have a sendmail.cf file only Mail.cf and mailx.cf and both don't have any hostname entry.
 
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The server wasn't running sendmail, it was running postfix.

duh :)
 
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