On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:39:18PM +0100, Tommy Einarsson wrote:
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What a junky mail service. (this isn't the first time I've seen this,
and it seems to come from the same service each time, oh well)
| Hi,
| After struggling around a few days with Exim + QPopper + Null Webmail I got
| it up and running as I intended (I'm impressed with myself.......) I have
| one issue left.
| I have a registered domain einarsson.nu. All Win32 programs are set to
| display tommy@???, but mailing from the Linux machine presents two
| diffentrent names.....
| If I use the Null Webmail I get the address tommye@localhost, if I se the
What does
grep 127 /etc/hosts
output?
exim uses the gethostbyname() C function to determine what your
machine's name is. This function gives back the first name listed in
/etc/hosts for the loopback IP. Make the first name there your
external name. For example :
change
127.0.0.1 localhost dman dman.ddts.net
to
127.0.0.1 dman.ddts.net localhost dman
| mail command I get tommye@???, where web is the name of the
| Linux machine.
I think this is correct. Here's some output regarding your systems :
$ host web.einarsson.nu
web.einarsson.nu A record currently not present
$ host -a web.einarsson.nu
web.einarsson.nu MX 5 ix.alldomains.com
$ host einarsson.nu
einarsson.nu has no A record (Authoritative answer)
$ host -a einarsson.nu
einarsson.nu NS ns1.netcorps.com
einarsson.nu NS ns2.netcorps.com
einarsson.nu SOA ns1.netcorps.com root.ns1.netcorps.com (
20010829 ;serial (version)
10800 ;refresh period (3 hours)
3600 ;retry interval (1 hour)
604800 ;expire time (1 week)
86400 ;default ttl (1 day)
)
If I tried to send mail to <something>@einarsson.nu it would fail
because there is no A or MX record for einarsson.nu (exim doesn't know
where to open a connection to). If I try to send mail to
<something>@web.einarsson.nu exim would deliver the message to
'ix.alldomains.com'. Is this what you want? Also, since
web.einarsson.nu has no A record no web browser will be able to browse
web pages on your machine. (I imagine that's the purpose of a system
named 'web') In fact, no one can get any connection to that machine
from its name.
| I will gladly admit that I'm no wiz in Linux, so I don't knowhere tostart
| search, and using the archive is a bit hard if you don't have a specific
| search criterea (the word domain gave me >8000 hits).
Can you provide some more information about your network? From the
above data I think something isn't complete somewhere.
-D
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He who finds a wife finds what is good
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