On 2 Oct 2001 12:23:22 +0200, Will Yardley <william+postfixhq.newdream.net> wrote:

> is there any way to make postfix try to look for a fqdn with 'hostname'?

Huh?

> the default for 'myhostname' seems to look for 'hostname', although on
> our system, the fqdn is only given with hostname -f or hostname --fqdn.
> sendmail seems to be able to figure this out ok - the machine's hostname
> isn't specified in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and yet the correct hostname is
> found.
>
> alternatively is there a file you can use to specify this?

myhostname = my.fqdn.whatever

Or you simply use:

mydomain = all.except.the.shot.hostname

mydomain will be appended to the short uname outpout, and voile you
have a FQDN!

> i realize that you can just set 'hostname = whatever' in main.cf, but
> for this particular application that isn't possible (the same
> configuration file must be automatically generated for a group of
> machines and so can't contain machine-specific information).

I know that. So simply say:

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