Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

[Robin Laing]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:45 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>I will add to this.  On my ISP's mail server, I cannot send mail out 
>>from my box using sendmail.  Even at work we have to modify the 
>>/etc/mail/sendmail.xx files to get it to work.  We had to get sendmail 
>>to masquerade the addresses for the mail server to accept our mail.
> 
> 
> Your mail server was probably using the unresolvable domain name
> "localhost.localdomain" for outgoing mail. No properly-configured mail
> server should be accepting mail from unresolvable domain, so it's likely
> that all you need to do is to get your server to use a real domain name,
> even if it's something like blah-12.34.56.78-isp.net.
> 
> Paul.

I agree that it is partly FQDN, at least at home.  At work all our 
workstations are real domain names.  The issue is the mail server will 
not forward/relay mail with these domain names 
XXX.YYY.DRDC-RDDC.gc.ca.  All mail must come from @DRDC-RDDC.gc.ca.  I 
can ping my computer using just it's first name with no problem from 
any work station and I have a public IP address.

At home, I cannot get FQDN as the DHCP name keeps changing by the IP I 
am assigned.  I haven't looked further than mail refused for this 
reason.  I would have to change the domain name on all the computers 
at home and do it dynamically.

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Robin Laing