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