On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:52, Donald Tyler wrote: > My MTA does announce itself as a domain name. All the forward and > reverse lookups are set up correctly. > > Steve Philips suggestion seems the most plausible at the moment. So > I will look into that when I return to work on Monday. > > If you know of how to stop my sendmail MTA from adding a period to > the end of its hostname, I would appreciate the info, as this is > what Steve suggests is the problem. > > Thanks. > Steve's suggestion is also echoed in a similar discussion in the comp.mail.sendmail archives: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=Pine.LNX.4.40.0111042129280.26900-100000%40varg.wolfpack&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dperiod%2Bend%2B%2522domain%2Bname%2522%2Behlo%2Bgroup:comp.mail.sendmail%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.mail.sendmail%26selm%3DPine.LNX.4.40.0111042129280.26900-100000%2540varg.wolfpack%26rnum%3D1 where the additional recommendation is a possible bad entry in /etc/hosts. Regards, Mike Klinke -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list