unable to qualify

[solarisadmin]

sendmail[18347]: unable to qualify my own domain name (xxxxxxxxxxxx) -- using short name. How can I fix this? I don't have DNS server.

 

[rjdscs]

If sendmail is unable to quailfy its own domain name edit the sendmail.cf file in either /etc or /etc/mail (location depends on sendmail version).

There is a line commented out

#Dj$w.foo.com

remove the comment and replace the foo.com with your domain name. So if the fully qualified name on the email server is
mail.silly.com

then the edited line should read

Dj$w.silly.com

the $w variable will resolve to the hostname (mail).

You can then check the setup out by running sendmail from the command line in debug mode, something like
/usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 </dev/null

which should then display the domain settings of sendmail.

Hope this helps

Richard

richard@brecon.co.uk

 

[rjdscs]

Further to my previous reply. I assume you have made the necessary entry in /etc/hosts. You need to add the ip address and fully qualified name of your mail server, and the fully qualified name should be the first name associated with the ip address.

Richard

richard@brecon.co.uk