Postfix & Hostname problems.

[David Cary Hart]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 22:29 +0000, Stewart Williams wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> I am new to Postfix and I have read various documentatihon on configuring 
> it, but I am having a problem understanding/get to work properly the 
> $myhostname setting.
> 
> Basically heres what I am trying to acheive...
> 
I have a similar setup - no problem. See what happens if you change your
hosts file.

Otherwise I suggest that you post your message in the postfix list.
Wietse, the author, is very helpful - while a bit prickly at times.

> I have a domain name hosted with a company with an MX record pointing to 
> my dedicated FC2 Linux server, that is hosted with another company (I do 
> not want to change this). My dedicated server already has a FQDN 
> hostname that was assigned by the hosting company. However, I want 
> Postfix to use my domain name instead of the system name. So, as far as 
> I understood all I had to do to overide this is edit main.cf and put in 
> myhostname=mail.mydomain.com. But this causes all sorts of problems; for 
> some reason Postfix still insists on using the system hostname. If I run 
> 'postconf -n' mydomain is listed, so why don't it work? am I assuming it 
> can be overridden when a FQDN hostname already exists, but it cannot? 
> Arrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh! :)
> 
> I've spent hours on this, but can't get no further. Please help.
> 
> p.s. if I am being a bit vague or you want details of what goes wrong, I 
> will supply them; just didn't want to bore you all to death :)

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