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From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:39:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJjrzcVBNxbMWOBKoVp6mQwrr-CmobCfWTSf9OKNjccrgmqZ4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4908276.31r3eYUQgx@cube>

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 23:11, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:20:40 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote:
> I think those entries must be for sendmail.

Yes, that machine has sendmail from mail-mta/opensmtpd, not postfix,
not sure it matters.

> > In /etc/postfix/main.cf there is this, and I assume at least some of
> > this makes this all work:
> > myhostname = <hostname>.lan
> > inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost
> > mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, <hostname>
>
> Isn't <hostname> the same as $myhostname?

No, $myhostname is <hostname>.lan

Like you I've had some trouble in the past, so a lot of this is from
trying and failing, but it works as I want it now, so I'm happy-ish.

Regards,
Arve


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-13 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-13 15:52 [gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please Peter Humphrey
2024-02-13 17:20 ` Arve Barsnes
2024-02-13 22:11   ` Peter Humphrey
2024-02-13 22:39     ` Arve Barsnes [this message]
2024-02-14 11:35 ` J. Roeleveld
2024-02-16  5:19   ` Peter Humphrey
2024-02-16 12:30     ` J. Roeleveld
2024-02-16 15:47       ` Peter Humphrey

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