Firas Kraiem wrote: > Greetings > > I get this message when booting my FBSD home webserver : > > Apr 3 22:23:55 alice sm-mta[509]: My unqualified host name (alice) > unknown; sleeping for retry > > From what I've understood after a bit of searching, the answer lies probably > in the /etc/hosts file. So here goes : > > 127.0.0.1 localhost alice > 192.168.1.2 alice > 192.168.1.3 bob > > Any help would be much appreciated.
sendmail is trying to work out your fully qualified domain name. In
short, it wants a name with dots in. You can just invent a name --
alice.local for example -- and your own sendmail will be happy, but
ones it connects to for mail delivery may be less so. That may or may
not be a problem depending on your local setup. Or else you can get
a name properly registered in the DNS and use that instead.
Cheers,
Matthew
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