Allegedly, on or about 20 August 2016, Patrick Dupre sent: > On a fresh installation fc24, alpine complains with: > [Incomplete maildomain "myserveur"] > I found: > http://phr3ak.z80.hu/2013/08/08/error-incomplete-maildomain-pine-alpine/ > recommending to add myserveur in the /etc/hosts file. > > I did so and restarted sendmail, but I still get the same error. > > I am surprise because, on a machine updated to fc24, I do not have > this error with or without altering the file /etc/hosts. Did you do what it actually said on that link? (Put a fully-qualified domain name into the hosts file - that means one with at least one dot in it.) If you just put a hostname, that is probably what the problem is (I haven't had that kind of issue for years, but I have had it). The hosts file is constructed with a lines of data starting with a numerical IP address, followed by domain names or hostnames. Traditionally, it's the fully-qualified domain name, followed by a list of any short hostnames that you also want to use (that must all be on the same line). e.g. Like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 mail.example.com mail smtp pop3 imap Anything that wants to to find the IP for any of those names will find it. But going in the reverse direction, anything that wants to find the name for an IP address will be told the *first* one. Some mail programs require that both look-ups have the same answer. Hence why the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) goes first. If you have more than one FQDN, then put the one it needs first. It may have worked on your other computer, without playing with the hosts file, because name resolution was done in some other way (DNS, ZeroConf, etc.). For what it's worth, avoid putting hostnames on the localhost line. While that's fine for things running on the same machine, it's not for communicating between computers. Put individual machine addresses on the line with an IP that connects to your LAN (as per my example). If your LAN uses DHCP and doles out different IPs each time (or potentially can do so), you need to change that behaviour so that the machine always has the same address. Either configure your DHCP server to dole out fixed IPs, or manually set the addresses in each computer, and pick addresses that won't conflict with the DHCP server (or disable the DHCP server if you're not actually making use of it). In my LAN, I've set the DHCP server to dole out only a limited range of IPs within a 192.168.1.0 subnet (e.g. it can give out anything with the range of 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200) to any device that happens to connect to my LAN. The rest it won't touch, and I can use for manually assigning addresses. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Damn, I didn't mean to press *that* button! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
