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Domainname, hosts

I didn't realize that what I needed to be looking at was the host name, not the domain name to get the correct domain for the host. I suppose that it really is the host name not the domain name, though the domain name needs to be set correctly for the yp configuration, but I don't think I'm using that at the moment. So, after reading through several more man pages and using the apropos command to find related pages, I came across the hosts file. This still had the computer name, i.e. host name, as my.domain. This is the default when you install the system. I wasn't quick enough during installation to realize that I would need to change this to something more realistic. I hope, now that I have the host name set correctly sendmail will now have the correct host name. Just for good measure, I'll restart sendmail, but I don't think I need to do this, though not sure why. Maybe because my mail server asks who sent the mail, sendmail doesn't tell it that? Not sure. Not much time to work on this now.