/etc/mailname is the local host's fully qualified domain name. It should match your /etc/hostname file. Although /etc/hostname may be a short hostname and is not required to be the fully qualified hostname. It is an admin preference. I prefer it fully qualifed. > If I have the "localhost" entry, then some mailservers reject my mail as > my servername is not a valid one. Correct. The address for this list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> is valid. But <debian-user@localhost> is not. This is the same thing. It needs to be a valid hostname that *other* systems know about. > What can I do to solve it? hostname --fqdn > /etc/mailname /etc/init.d/postfix restart

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what to do by error mailname is not a fully qualified domain name. Not changing /etc/mailname

/etc/mailname is the local host's fully qualified domain name. It should match your /etc/hostname file. Although /etc/hostname may be a short hostname and is not required to be the fully qualified hostname. It is an admin preference. I prefer it fully qualifed. > If I have the "localhost" entry, then some mailservers reject my mail as > my servername is not a valid one. Correct. The address for this list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> is valid. But <debian-user@localhost> is not. This is the same thing. It needs to be a valid hostname that *other* systems know about. > What can I do to solve it? hostname --fqdn > /etc/mailname /etc/init.d/postfix restart 07.12.13

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