Setting hostname - fake and real
Ben Paley
ben at spooty.net
Wed Mar 9 00:09:24 PST 2005
Hello,
Is there an easy way to set a fake hostname in rc.conf which will let sendmail
send mail to external domains?
For ages I've had the line in rc.conf
hostname="potato.fake_domain.net"
(not exactly, but you see what I mean...) and I've had no problems with it at
all. Recently I've tried to set up sendmail, only so I can test php or perl
scripts that send emails!
Sending to localhost works fine, but mail to an external address is returned
by the remote domain because it couldn't verify my domain. Very sensible, I
could be a spammer. So I edited rc.conf to say
hostname="potato.real_domain.net"
that is, I used the name of a real domain which is registered to me. The
domain is hosted on the net, but AFAIK they don't have a machine called
"potato". Now apache won't start and I get weird errors in other things, like
shutting down X even!
Can anyone help?
Thanks very much,
Ben
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