On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mike Pumford wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Dave J Thorn wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mike Clark wrote:
> You can fix this by telling sendmail your domain name in /etc/sendmail.cf 
> with the line
> Dhostname.domain
I checked this in my /etc/sendmail.cf at home and it does not seem
correct. Djhostname.domain may work but I am not sure.

The way I solved this at home is to have an entry in my /etc/hosts which
defines my fully qualified domain name as the name entry with just the
machine name as an alternative name. I then configured my machine to do 
name lookups from the hosts file first by adding the line:
lookup file bind

to /etc/resolv.conf.

This allows sendmail to resolve my machines full name even when no
nameservers are available.

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