localhost.localdomain when sending email

[stuaz87]

Hi All,

When I send an email via the "mail" command, the person who recives the email gets the from address as "xxx@localhost.localdomain"

I can't seem to find where you can change this? Is it a host entry? Because i changed it there and when I send out emails I am getting errors because of Loop-back.

Any ideas, if and where I change this in the sendmail configuration?

I am using CentOS 4.

Thanks

[Quarlington]

Try this:
Add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/network
HOSTNAME="YourHostName"
Restart your network: service network restart

[stuaz87]

the host entry that i want to use is already in that file.

[azlinux]

what mail system are you using to send mail?

is it sendmail? Qmail? or PHP/Web based mail using sendmail

[stuaz]

I use Sendmail.

[scm]

What's the Dj macro set to in your sendmail.cf? Have you got a domain defined in /etc/resolv.conf? And which email client are using?

[azlinux]

OK Easiest way would be be to define a DNS Entry for your server!

yourserver.xx. IN MX 10 mail.yourserver.xx.

mail.yourserver.xx. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Then in your mail server set the hostname to mail.yourserver.xx.

[stuaz]

OK Easiest way would be be to define a DNS Entry for your server!

yourserver.xx. IN MX 10 mail.yourserver.xx.

mail.yourserver.xx. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Then in your mail server set the hostname to mail.yourserver.xx.

Ok, i added domain to the resolv.conf:

vi /etc/resolv.conf

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
domain mydomain.co.uk
nameserver 192.168.1.11

Not quite sure how you edit what you are saying AZLINUX, could you perhaps make it a bit clearer for a simple mind like mine :P