Sendmail question

rlkiddjr · 03-04-2002, 03:59 PM

When I send an email via sendmail it sends as user@localhost.localdomain. How do you change this? I know you can masquerade the domain name but can it be changed another way. I have two domains so I really can't masquerade.
Thanks for any help,
Lee

Scotty2435 · 03-04-2002, 05:05 PM

in KDE you can go to network conifguration and change your hostname from localhost.localdomain to what you want it to be. You can also go to the command line and type
hostname NEWHOSTNAMEHERE

after you do either of these thing you need to change your /etc/hosts file to reflect your new hostname. Don't reboot before you change /etc/hosts

chuck77 · 03-04-2002, 07:56 PM

i also wanna know abt this question. if my server hostname is "abc.million.com" and the email sent out will be "user@abc.million.com". How do i change it to "user@million.com" ???

karunesh · 03-04-2002, 10:21 PM

I think you want an entry in /etc/mail/local-host-names,as

yourdomain.com
mail.yourdomain.com

And also change your domain name in /etc/sendmail.cf.

Djyourdomain.com

Scotty2435 · 03-04-2002, 10:21 PM

I know with pine which you can run from the command line by typing well pine you can change your domain like this

after running pine go to setup
and then where it says user domain change that to whatever you want it. This will let you send mail as a bad domain