[WBEL-users] Help Configuring Sendmail

[Shapiro, Mark]

Dear Jeff,

Thanks,

I found that I needed to include the host names in
/etc/mail/local-host-names in order to send mail to the machine.

To send mail from the machine, I also had to include the hostnames in
the /etc/hosts file.

Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
California State University, Fullerton
Phone: 714 278-3884
FAX: 714 278-5810
email: mshapiro@fullerton.edu
web: http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Shapiro.html
travel and family pictures:
http://community.webshots.com/user/mhshapiro 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Macdonald [mailto:macfisherman@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 1:06 PM
To: Shapiro, Mark
Cc: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Help Configuring Sendmail

put the name of your machine into:

/etc/mail/local-host-names


On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:45:50 -0800, Shapiro, Mark
<mshapiro@exchange.fullerton.edu> wrote:
>  
>  
> 
> I recently loaded WBEL 3.0 Respin 1 on one of my workstations, and I
am
> having difficulty mailing files from the machine. 
> 
>   
> 
> $mail mshapiro@fullerton.edu < testfile 
> 
>   
> 
> Fails with the following message: 
> 
>   
> 
> The following addresses had permanent fatal errors --------- 
> 
> mshapiro@fullerton.edu 
> 
>             (reason: 553 5.1.8 mshapiro@localhost.localdomain>....
Domain of
> sender +address 
> 
> mshpairo@localhost.localdomain does not exist) 
> 
>   
> 
> .............................................................. 
> 
>   
> 
> Something needs to be configured so that the mail is sent from
> mshapiro@ion3.fullerton.edu 
> 
>   
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. 
> 
>   
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> Dr. Mark H. Shapiro 
> 
> Professor of Physics, Emeritus 
> 
> California State University, Fullerton 
> 
> Phone: 714 278-3884 
> 
> FAX: 714 278-5810 
> 
> email: mshapiro@fullerton.edu 
> 
> web: http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Shapiro.html 
> 
> travel and family pictures: 
> 
> http://community.webshots.com/user/mhshapiro 
> 
>   
> 
>   


-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA