"Fai" <faiyazm@mspli.com> wrote in message
news:68feda63.0401080720.27637d4c@posting.google.c om
> Hi,
>
> We are using redhat linux 9. We have configured sendmail. We are able
> to send mails but not receiving them. When we cheked the log we came
> to know that there is an error "unknown host", "My unqualified host
> name (mailserver) unknown; sleeping for retry". Log file has been
> pasted in this message. We are not finding where we r doing wrong.
> Please give us a solution.
[...]
> Jan 8 20:35:26 mailserver sendmail[3196]: My unqualified host name
> (mailserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Jan 8 20:36:46 mailserver sendmail[3196]: unable to qualify my own
> domain name (mailserver) -- using short name

Solution: Your /etc/hosts file should be similar to (localhost should be
exactly like):

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.222 mailserver.example.net mailserver



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