Guest giap01 Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 All, Thanks for looking at this. I have had my mandrake 9.1 up and running for a couple of weeks now, all is cool so far, just ironing out an issue (for me) a week. I tried to send an e-mail message from the command line. All went fine till I tried to send. I got the following message. [pat@jughead pat]$ send-mail: warning: My hostname jughead is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf postdrop: warning: My hostname jughead is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf The box is hooked up to the internet, I did get that going. I did change my box's name to 'jughead' a while back and I can hit it from other machines on my network in IE by typing in 'jughead' in the address line. What is Fully Qualified? How do I get Fully Qualified? Thanks, Pat G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest giap01 Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 I went into /etc/postfix/main.cf and entered in host.jughead.com as the myhostname. I tried sending myself 'pat@jughead' a mail message and it came back undeliverable. Getting fully qualified, is this something that I can do on my machine with the current configuration (hooked to the internet throught a router) or do I need a different setup? I want to be able to send out e-mails. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 All that you need to do is make your hostname fully qualified - i.e. mine is kirstine.lombok.org.uk, with kirstine being the name of the computer (like your "jughead" and lombok.org.uk qualifying it as a full domain name. I don't think the domain name actually has to exist or be owned by you - not certain on that though. Jut change it to a fully qualified name and Postfix should be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest giap01 Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 I went into /etc/postfix/main.cf and changed my hostname to 'jughead.omneb.us.com' and restarted. I tried to send an e-mail and it came back. The error message said that my ISP did not recognize it as a valid 'from'. I also tried 'jughead.52monkeys.com' (www.52monkeys.com is MY website) and that did not work. What's up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 What is listed as the from email address? I'm not sure that it should be your hostname. Is this the same error as you were getting before you changed the hostname? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest giap01 Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 Yes it was, I changed it back to 'jughead.omneb.us.com' and sent a mail as 'root' and it did not come back. It has not shown up where I sent it to either. I then changed permissions on the mail.cf file and sent a mail as me: pat and it just came back (as I'm writing this). Here is the error mssg: Message 1: From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Aug 3 09:52:38 2003 X-Original-To: pat@jughead.omneb.us.com Delivered-To: pat@jughead.omneb.us.com Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:52:38 -0400 (EDT) From: MAILER-DAEMON@jughead.omneb.us.com (Mail Delivery System) Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender To: pat@jughead.omneb.us.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="C467F9C672.1059922358/jughead.omneb.us.com" This is a MIME-encapsulated message. --C467F9C672.1059922358/jughead.omneb.us.com Content-Description: Notification Content-Type: text/plain This is the Postfix program at host jughead.omneb.us.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <giambattista@cox.net>: host mx.west.cox.net[68.6.19.3] said: 553 jughead.omneb.us.com does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command) --C467F9C672.1059922358/jughead.omneb.us.com Content-Description: Delivery error report Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; jughead.omneb.us.com Arrival-Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:52:05 -0400 (EDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; giambattista@cox.net Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mx.west.cox.net[68.6.19.3] said: 553 jughead.omneb.us.com does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command) --C467F9C672.1059922358/jughead.omneb.us.com Content-Description: Undelivered Message Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: by jughead.omneb.us.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id C467F9C672; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:52:05 -0400 (EDT) To: giambattista@cox.net Subject: Another try: jughead.omneb.us.com Cc: pgiambat@52monkeys.com Message-Id: <20030803145205.C467F9C672@jughead.omneb.us.com> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:52:05 -0400 (EDT) From: pat@jughead.omneb.us.com (Pat Giambattista) jughead.omneb.us.com --C467F9C672.1059922358/jughead.omneb.us.com-- There you go. Thats what is happening. Thanks, Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanackle Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 Hi In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, you'll find two variables: "myhostname" and "mydomain'. I believe the last is actually more important than the first, as I just realised I got "myhostanme" instead of "myhostname"!... Anyway, I'm far from being an expert but I realised that, to have a fully qualified hostname, you should give values to both those variables (and it can be most anything - I got it working with stuff like "jeanackle.casa"). Using the las hostname you specified, it would be: myhostname = jughead.omneb.us.com and mydomain = omneb.us.com Try that :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooYah Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 I wonder if it's not something with your server. Their mailer cannot verify jughead.omneb.us.com is a valid/registered domain so your message gets flagged as potential spam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest giap01 Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 All, Thanks for the suggestions guys. I've been on vacation, the reason for not posting back. Let me get this straight: If I get this set up correctly... I should be able to send mail to anyone at any (good) e-mail address fromt the comand line using the mail command?!?! If this is true, then don't I have to set up my box to point toward a mail server, incoming at least?!?! Anyhow, here is what I have for settings in my main.cf file in /etc/postfix: myhostname = jughead.omned.us.com mydomain = omneb.us.com I can set up a mail client (and some mail accounts with all the smtp incoming and outgoing settings and all that) to go out and hook up and get my mail. I want to (if it is possible) send e-mails from the command line. I like to keep some things GUI-Free. There you go, Thanks giap01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanackle Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 What I told you before works for me as for sending e-mails to any valid e-mail adress on the internet, NOT receiving! Don't ask me why. :) . Just type: mail someone@some.mail.server And that's that. Subject, message (terminated by a line containing a single '.' (dot), and Cc will be asked to you at the prompt. Stil, you can receive e-mails form other users on your local machine. E.g.: [user1@localhost ]$ mail user2 Subejct: Testing This is a test. . Cc: And user2 on the same machine user1 sent the e-mail from will get that e-mail. Sorry, that's all I can tell you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooYah Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Sending, yes. Receving is something different. This Networking Concepts HOWTO explains things pretty well. I like to keep some things GUI-Free. What about mutt? The mail manual is also pretty good. man mail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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