From testing sendmail (and I am a newbie at that), I am able to send e-mail and receive e-mail using user@host.mydomain.com format. I have Comcast residential so I had to change SMART_HOSTS to my ISP's SMTP server addy and that way my e-mail was not treated as spam (coming from a dynamic IP block). However....

'Enter a host name' is what Debian asks me to name the computer so I give it a name ...say...papajohns. Is it possible, without paying a third party, to give yourself an e-mail like admin@mydomain.com as opposed to admin@papajohns.mydomain.com using Sendmail or another kind of Mail Server program?

Any input would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I do own a domain. e.g, www.mydomain.com.

You just need to enable address rewriting. Been too long since I last used the archaic language known as sendmail config files, but it will strip the hostname off messages sent from within your domain.

So are you doing this on slackware or debian?

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