Setting host and domain for mailx
Kenton Brede
kbrede at nixnotes.org
Sun May 1 03:50:59 UTC 2005
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 07:58:08PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman (kogorman at gmail.com) wrote:
> I just had reason to use mailx to send out some mail to
> a list of people I know, and they just about all failed
> because mailx thinks my box is
> localhost at localdomain
>
> What did I set up wrong? This is Warty, about to go
> Hoary.
Edit /etc/mailname to reflect the domain you want to send as.
Restart postfix -
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
If Warty uses exim restart exim.
Kent
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