Thanks to:
Stephen Harris
Roger Cotton
Larry Chin
All three have indicated that I needed to add the FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME
into /etc/hosts as:
1.2.3.4 matt loghost matt.fcnbd.com
The full explaination came from Stephen Harris as:
"sendmail 8 is a bit stricter about domain names than the
previous versions... I see the same errors on Solaris 2.5.1 with the
latest Recommended patches. Hmm.... 2.4 also does this - can't
remember if that machine is patched or not.
Possibly before your machines could use DNS to fully qualify it's name...?"
Original messages:
> Question for the group,
>
> I have set up a new ultra1 with solaris 7 and I am seeing an error message
from
> sendamil:
>
> sendmail{pid}: my unqualified host name (matt.) unknown; sleeping for retry.
>
> I have reviewed sendmail man pages and could not find any reference to where
> this might be coming form. The host name for the machine is matt
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark Conroy
>
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