Setting host and domain for mailx

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Sun May 1 14:24:54 UTC 2005


Thanks.  That did it.

Isn't there a GUI tool to do the same?  Is there something I missed
while doing the
install?  I'm asking because I have students I give Ubuntu install
disks to, and I
want to give them easy instructions for setup.

++ kevin



On 4/30/05, Kenton Brede <kbrede at nixnotes.org> wrote:
> 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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