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- From: ffjal@alaska.edu (John Lehman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Help Not recieving mail
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.162629.7687@raven.alaska.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:26:29 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.141721.4175@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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- In article <1992Jul22.141721.4175@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- rainer@coos.dartmouth.edu (Robert O. Rainer) writes:
- ... I was wondering if someone could help me with my mail problem. It seems
- that I
- can send mail off my mac fine using elm, but when I try to mail to my mac I
- get the following message: ...
- >
- ><<< 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
- ...
- If you are not using a mail server (and maybe even if you are :)) /etc/HOSTNAME
- needs to have the complete system name. E.g. when I named my machine "lehman"
- I had the same problem; when I explicitly renamed it "lehman.uafsom.alaska.edu"
- the problem went away.
-