Re: My unqualified host name (servername) unknown; sleeping for retry

2011-11-10 Thread fakessh @
Le jeudi 10 novembre 2011 09:30, Ian a écrit : > > i do you stop the daemon sendmail with the standard script systeme and > > start postfix daemon > > or use the toolkit to your system configuration > > if you use centos or redhat: > > stop sendmail: > service sendmail stop > > remove sendmail from

Re: My unqualified host name (servername) unknown; sleeping for retry

2011-11-10 Thread Ian
> i do you stop the daemon sendmail with the standard script systeme and start > postfix daemon > or use the toolkit to your system configuration if you use centos or redhat: stop sendmail: service sendmail stop remove sendmail from system rpm -e sendmail start postfix service postfix start in

Re: My unqualified host name (servername) unknown; sleeping for retry

2011-11-09 Thread Ian
Oops! Mail systems work much better when postfix isn't being interfered with by sendmail, don't they? Sorry about that. What incredibly shoddy work! I had managed to forget to uninstall sendmail on both my test environment *AND* production environment. Thanks for the help, Wietse & Mike. Much ap

Re: My unqualified host name (servername) unknown; sleeping for retry

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Woods
That particular message is indeed sendmail. -- Sent from my Palm Pre On Nov 9, 2011 11:49 a.m., Wietse Venema wrote: Ian: > In my test environment, the postfix install doesn't complain, but in the > production environment, I get the "unqualified host name () u

Re: My unqualified host name (servername) unknown; sleeping for retry

2011-11-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Ian: > In my test environment, the postfix install doesn't complain, but in the > production environment, I get the "unqualified host name () unknown; > sleeping for retry", *but* the mails get delivered OK. That is NOT a Postfix error message. You have multiple MTAs on one machine, perh

Re: My unqualified host name (servername) unknown; sleeping for retry

2011-11-09 Thread Ian
Sorry I forgot to mention my postfix version: It's postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6 on Centos 5.6 Thanks

My unqualified host name (servername) unknown; sleeping for retry

2011-11-09 Thread Ian
Hi I'm trying to set up an environment using postfix without dns. For hostnames the server will have only hostname01, hostname02 etc (i.e. not even qualified by .localdomain) At the moment it's not possible to change this hostname setup (because of 3rd party software) In my test environment, th