Hi Everyone,
Happy New Year!
I am new to Postfix and I have read various documentation 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 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 :)
