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 :) ________________________________________________________________________ Total Quality Management - A Commitment to Excellence http://www.TQMcube.com
