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[Jimmy_13]

I have a message from sendmail: unable to qualify my own domain name (HP9000) -- using short name

What is the problem?

[someone_4]

Hi this is from the sendmamil.cf file .. look for
Dj and you will see what you need.

# WARNING: local host name (sys1) is not qualified; fix $j in config file #
# #
# then you need to uncomment the Dj macro and add your domain. #
# #
# Change the line: #
# #Dj$w.Foo.COM #
# to #
# Dj$w.hp.com #
# #
# where hp.com would be the name of your domain. Then that warning #
# message will go away. #
#



~ Richard

[someone_4]

dont forget to restart sendmail after you make the change

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

[Pete Randall]

Jimmy,

This is also from /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:

This is required only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your #
# domain. If you are not using DNS, and the official host name (ie, #
# the first entry in /etc/hosts following your IP address) is not a #
# fully-qualified host name, then sendmail will have difficulty resolving #
# your domain name.


You might want to check your /etc/hosts file as well.

Pete