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#tail -f /var/log/mail.log
eb 22 18:41:02 dinesh-desktop sm-msp-queue[10472]: unable to qualify my own domain name (dinesh-desktop) -- using short name
Feb 22 19:00:01 dinesh-desktop sm-msp-queue[10607]: My unqualified host name (dinesh-desktop) unknown; sleeping for retry
Feb 22 19:01:01 dinesh-desktop sm-msp-queue[10607]: unable to qualify my own domain name (dinesh-desktop) -- using short name
Feb 22 19:03:11 dinesh-desktop sm-mta[10816]: My unqualified host name (dinesh-desktop) unknown; sleeping for retry
Feb 22 19:03:13 dinesh-desktop sm-msp-queue[10822]: My unqualified host name (dinesh-desktop) unknown; sleeping for retry
Feb 22 19:04:11 dinesh-desktop sm-mta[10816]: unable to qualify my own domain name (dinesh-desktop) -- using short name
Feb 22 19:04:12 dinesh-desktop sm-mta[10816]: gethostbyaddr(10.200.2.42) failed: 1
Feb 22 19:04:12 dinesh-desktop sm-mta[10854]: starting daemon (8.14.3): SMTP+queueing@00:10:00
Feb 22 19:04:13 dinesh-desktop sm-msp-queue[10822]: unable to qualify my own domain name (dinesh-desktop) -- using short name
Feb 22 19:05:01 dinesh-desktop sendmail[10883]: My unqualified host name (dinesh-desktop) unknown; sleeping for retry

Any help, i could int find out problem in my sendmail ,its starting up fine ,But it does int sending mail out of my local linux boxes.

How to you send emails? i.e. which client?
Is /etc/mail/access (or whatever the used path is) set properly?

If you don't use a name server, add an entry in /etc/hosts:

Fine to letting me know.

Thanks for ur reply
I solved my problem by making hostsentry as below
Vi /etc/hosts

#127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain dinesh-desktop dinesh-desktop.foobar
192.168.1.4 dinesh-desktop