On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 19:24 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> Ah, I'm beginning to understand, mail to 'chris' and 'root' works, but
> sendmail would appear to add a hostname to what's sent by an MUA and
> anything with a hostname after the username is sent out, which doesn't
> work.
Hmm, this sounds familiar. Somewhere along the line of setting up
networking on one of my boxes, it got a FQDN set where there should just
be a hostname. Then sendmail was adding the domain name onto the end of
that. Naturally, this didn't work. And I got some peculiar error
messages.
e.g. What happened:
my intended hostname: machine
my intended domain name: example.com
actual hostname: machine.example.com
actual domain name: example.com
Services making up a FQDN from the given information, came up
with: machine.example.com.example.com
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