why am i sending mutt mail with my FQDN??

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Jan 25 17:12:38 PST 2008


On Jan 25, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> The problem with t rying to use mutt, even when I reach my  
> mailserver on
> aristotle.thought.org, is that *somehow* -- I do not understand how  
> -- but
> for some reason, mutt tacks on the FDQN rather than simply my domain  
> name.
[ ... ]
> it never reached me at magnesium.net.  Can anybody clue me in?

Sure.  If you want to masquerade a local machine's FQDN to just your  
domain name, follow the happy instructions from the FAQ:

   http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html

-- 
-Chuck



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