canam101
October 4th, 2010, 09:05 PM
I found out that mail to certain addresses is being rejected because when I installed ubuntu I specified the computer name as 'renfrew', and the mail servers said that was not a fqdn (fully-qualified domain name).
After looking around, I have the idea that I could turn it into a fqdn if I went to etc/hosts, and /etc/hostnames and changed 'renfrew' to 'renfrew.google.com'.
So I did that, but my email still gets rejected for not having a fqdn. It looks like the mail servers see the same thing I see when I open up a terminal window: joe@renfrew.
So is there some way I can change what I see in a terminal window to:
joe@renfrew.google.com?
I'm hoping that if I do that, the mail servers will see a fqdn and accept my mail.
I looked at various system type menus but don't see what will do the trick.
Maybe I should be clear that the 'from' address in the emails is a fqdn. But that is not what is causing the problem with the mail servers. It is something else called a HELO command/address/some other component of sending emails.
Thanks for any help.
After looking around, I have the idea that I could turn it into a fqdn if I went to etc/hosts, and /etc/hostnames and changed 'renfrew' to 'renfrew.google.com'.
So I did that, but my email still gets rejected for not having a fqdn. It looks like the mail servers see the same thing I see when I open up a terminal window: joe@renfrew.
So is there some way I can change what I see in a terminal window to:
joe@renfrew.google.com?
I'm hoping that if I do that, the mail servers will see a fqdn and accept my mail.
I looked at various system type menus but don't see what will do the trick.
Maybe I should be clear that the 'from' address in the emails is a fqdn. But that is not what is causing the problem with the mail servers. It is something else called a HELO command/address/some other component of sending emails.
Thanks for any help.