setting the hostname on ubuntu 18.04 / iRedMail

[robert rottermann]

Hi there


I am a bit confused on how to est the hostname on an 18.04 server.

I intend to use the server as a mail server running iRedMail.

The instruction to set up iRedMail instructs to set :

On Debian/Ubuntu Linux, hostname is set in two 
files:|/etc/hostname|and|/etc/hosts|.

  * |/etc/hostname|: short hostname, not FQDN.

|mx|

and to to set etc hosts:

  * |/etc/hosts|: static table lookup for hostnames.*Warning*: Please
    list the FQDN hostname as first item.

|# Part of file: /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 mx.example.com mx localhost 
localhost.localdomain |


so what I did:

in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg

I changed:

# This will cause the set+update hostname module to not operate (if true)
preserve_hostname: true

in /etc/hostname:

mx


in /etc/hosts:

127.0.1.1 redcor.com redcor.com
127.0.0.1 mx.redcor.com localhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

However when I execute:

hostname -f

I get:

mx


How should I setup the hostname, that I can use the server as a 
mailserver for mail.redcor.com


thannks, robert

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