SENDMAIL

[trg2d]

I have a SCO Unix box that is routing it's sendmail through a corporate exchange server. This is working fine, however when the email come through it has our old computer name on it from a coulple of years ago. I have searched every file I know of to see where sendmail would be picking this name up from.

/usr/lib/sendmail.cf
/etc/systemid
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolve.conf
/etc/lmhosts

I am sure someone out there knows where it is picking this name up from. I do a hostname lookup it comes up with the correct name. I have two other SCO boxes that are working fine with the same configuration. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[UkWizard]

There are two places that i can think of;

check your local dns config ( in the /etc/resolv.conf )
I have seen on my machine where it gets the domain from here ( under the domain xxx.com setting )

Otherwise, run the 'scoadmin sendmail' command to configure the sendmail. there is a domain entry there that you can set within the menu, then run the Generate sendmail to make the changes active.
but i would only change this if its says it is wrong, so check first, from the 'review config info' menu option first.


Regards

The UkWizard

 

[trg2d]

I have already tried both of those options Ukwizard, but I put mutt on as a mail client and for some reason it stopped. Thanks anyway

 

[BIS]

could it be stored in memory? perhaps stop and restart sendmail?

 

[drtrinidad]

In case you want to use another mail client which brings back your original problem, try editing:

/usr/mmdf/mmdftailor

The SCO version of Sendmail actually uses this file, despite the mmdf in the name!

eg:

;
; Fake mmdftailor file for use with sendmail. This file
; tells the user agents where to look for mail.
;
MLNAME oldmach
MLDOMAIN yourcomp.com
MDLVRDIR "/usr/spool/mail"
MMBXNAME ""
MMBXPROT 0600