> Hi, > some sites mail spam rejects my mail because my hostname is not > qualified. > > So how do I config smail to make sure my host name is qualified. I > had a look at the man page about /etc/smail/qualify... but don't really > understand what to do with it... >
Hard to answer without knowing more about your mail setup. I assume though that you have a common dialup setup where you fetch mail from an ISP and send outgoing mail via the same ISP. If so, try sending mail to yourself. Look at the "from:" and "sender:" headers. Chances are that it is "from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" where "yourmachine" isn't listed anywhere in DNS so it doesn't work. Some sites will reject your mail, and nobody will be able to reply to the bogus address either, unless they happen to be logged in on your particular machine. You probably have a an email address at the ISP, right? Now change your smail setup so that smail rewrites your addresses so they seem to come from the ISP's mailserver instead. (man smail, look at /usr/doc/smail, this isn't exactly easy) Also make sure the username is correct. More trickery is necessary if your username on your machine is different from username at the ISP. People should be able to reply after this, and your mail won't be rejected if "from/sender" point back to the ISP nameserver which is registered in DNS. Helge Hafting
