Article:		Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3
Subject:		sendmail: unable to qualify my own domain name
Date:		2002-02-28 22:29:38
From:		santos
Chris, I am really enjoying your articles. This is great information presented very well. I'm having trouble with sendmail after taking the steps in part two. Specifically, anytime I send mail via the CLI mail program, I get these two messages on the console: Feb 28 21:34:31 localhost sendmail[1019]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry Feb 28 21:35:31 localhost sendmail[1019]: unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name The mail seems to go through, and all other functions of sendmail seem to work, but nevertheless, the error messages are occurring. Thank You, Bill

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• SOLUTION! sendmail: unable to qualify my own domain name
  2003-06-03 10:53:47  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  The solution is to add a line in your "/etc/hosts" file.
  
  My computer is Nelly, and i'm doing localhosting sooo:
  
  127.0.0.1 nelly.local. nelly
  
  The format is:
  
  [ipaddress] [longname] [shortname]
  
  Obviously without the brackets.
  Don't know your name? Try pinging yourself or doing an:
  >nslookup [shortname]
  
  Cheers!
  bcshessa@bluffton.edu

• sendmail: unable to qualify my own domain name
  2002-03-01 14:46:28  kwidholm [View]
  
  
  I've been having the same issue. The problem seems to go away when I'm online. Of course, if I didn't have my console open, the problem wouldn't "exist".
  
  I'd like to see if anyone can get rid of this stuff without having a fully qualified, always on domain name for their machine? Any takers?
  
  k
• sendmail: unable to qualify my own domain name
  2006-12-12 04:25:39  ABHAY [View]
  
  
  Please ensure that ur systems name is peresent in /etc/mail/host-name file.your computer name shoud be a domain name say xx.com. becoz while sending mail it will chk for this.