Never mind, my friend just told me how to correct it. Apparently in you just have something like HOSTNAME=joe then sendmail uses localhost.localdomain, but if you change HOSTNAME=joe.somedomain.org, then sendmail will use the joe.somedomain.org hostname. Did that make sense or have I stayed up too late again tonight and am just rambling ... Jim Streit > I just recently did an install of sendmail 8.11.6 on > RedHat 7.3. Email works fine, but when I telnet to the > server address on port 25 I see: > > 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail ... > > Note the localhost.localdomain, on my other sendmail > server I see the machines hostname. I have already > checked the etc/sysconfig/network file and made sure > that the setting HOSTNAME= is correct. > > Has anyone with sendmail experience seen this before and > know how to correct it? > > Thanks > Jim Streit > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list