Hello all, I am having an issue that's been bugging me, but isn't that important, so I've been ignoring it. I'm hoping that maybe you folks can help. I have a box, mercury, that handles all the mail for my domain. Doing a DNS lookup on it gives the name mail.lobefin.net. /etc/hosts looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost mercury 216.158.52.98 mail.lobefin.net mercury 216.158.52.98 adsl-216-158-52-98-cust.oldcity.dca.net mercury with the usual ipv6 stuff after. The issues are these: When I log in to this box, it displays $USER@mail, rather than @mercury, as I would like it to, since that's the name in /etc/hostname. Also, this: steve@mail:~$ cat /etc/hostname mercury steve@mail:~$ hostname mail.lobefin.net steve@mail:~$ hostname -a mercury steve@mail:~$ hostname -s mail steve@mail:~$ hostname -d lobefin.net steve@mail:~$ hostname --fqdn mail.lobefin.net doesn't seem to correspond - `hostname` should return what's in /etc/hostname, right? And finally, when I log into sqwebmail, it displays the email address as $USER@mail.lobefin.net, and puts this as the return address on any mail sent from the box. I have worked around this with exim, but I would like it to give the email address $USER@lobefin.net. This may be a problem with sqwebmail setting the hostname from the FQDN, rather than from a config file, but since the rest of my hostname settings aren't doing exactly what I'd like, I thought I'd throw it in as well. Someone please hit me with a cluebat? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Stephen Gran | Computers can figure out all kinds of | |steve@lobefin.net | problems, except the things in the world | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | that just don't add up. | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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