On Friday 05 Apr 2002 7:11 pm, Alan Poulton wrote: > Thursday, April 04, 2002, 10:43:10 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > > It seems to me it might be useful for you to take a step away from the > > problem and realise three things. > > > > 1) Its not your computer but each interface that has an IP address > > That makes sense when I pause to think about it. =] > > As for the FQDN, I figured it out. The problem lay in /etc/dhcp/config > where it asks for the hostname there. When I changed that to a FQDN, > postfix installed without a hiccup. > > But now I run into the problem that when I send mail to root, (I > believe) it's being sent to my ISP. The modem lights flash. > > If I want to keep my mail all local, should I be using a fudged > hostname?
I think NOT. What you need to do is read the docs for configuring your MTA (postfix in this case) and ensure that mail to the domain name that is being used is considered local by postfix and not transfered. As I said in the previous post this is generally nothing to do with the various files you have been playing with to set this up but rather the postfix configuration files. I use Exim now, and its been a long while since I used postfix, but I am sure you will be able to find out what domain name has been used by whatever is sending to root (or it may have no domain name in which case postfix is probably adding one). -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
