[clug] [PMX:#] Sendmail config - PLEASE help!!

[Andrew Smith]

Steve,

Yeah it should just work.  Perhaps sendmail can't work out your hostname?  I don't think it simply runs the hostname command to find
it.  Do a "dig a nagios_server.industry.gov.au" and "dig ptr -x <nagios IP>" to see what lines up against the hostname and IP
address.  If you can change the DNS records, then see if that helps.

Otherwise, check /etc/hosts and perhaps change the order for hosts against 127.0.0.1 to "127.0.0.1 nagios_server.industry.gov.au
localhost localhost.localdomain"

As a last resort, set a masquerade option.  It's recommended to work from mc files these days (helps when upgrading and it's
easier).  Add this to your sendmail.mc file and run m4 to generate sendmail.cf

MASQUERADE_AS(`nagios_server.industry.gov.au’)

Good luck
Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:linux-bounces+andrew=coolchilli.com at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of
> Collins, Steve
> Sent: Friday, 27 August 2004 3:13 PM
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> Subject: [clug] [PMX:#] Sendmail config - PLEASE help!!
>
>
> I have a server which knows it's name:
>
> [root at nagios_server mail]# hostname
> nagios_server.industry.gov.au
>
> Yet everything coming out of sendmail sends as, for example, nagios at localhost.localdomain.
>
> What I'd like to do is have mail come out as someuser at industry.gov.au.  Any change I make to sendmail doesn't seem to
> have any affect.  I've set the DM/CM config on the box to cover all of the variants I can think of:
>
> DMindustry.gov.au
> CMlocalhost
> CMlocalhost.localdomain
> CMnagios_server.industry.gov.au
>
> Nothing seems to make any difference.
>
> Any advice MORE than welcome at this (frustrated) point.
>
> Steve
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> Stephen Collins
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