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Re: Domainname problems..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Mon Nov 25 00:03:17 1996

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:59:29 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Craig Hoffman writes:
 > 
 > 	How do I set my host and domain name up?  I believe I have
 > succesfully set up the hostname (infinity:  This is basically just what
 > I'd like to name my computer, right?).  But for some reason I cant seem to
 > set up the domain name right.  It should be gdi.net.  I can force pine to
 > use a typed in domain, but no other mail programs seem to work properly.
 > My email address should be infinity@gdi.net.  If I dont forceably set pine
 > to say gdi.net, my outbound mail will say infinity@infinity.
 > 
Are you talking about setting the domainname for sendmail ? If you are
just go to sendmail.cf and on the line:

DM
 change it to
DMgdi.net

That should do it for mail,

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