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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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From: crawford@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za (Brian Crawford)
Subject: hostname change on 386bsd/Smail
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 15:41:02 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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I'm running 386bsd release 0.1 w/ patchkit 0.2.3, and Smail 3.1.28.  Recently,
the hostname of this machine was changed from com9 to comgate.  The 386bsd 
/etc/hostname file was changed and there is no problem with the os it seems.  

However, after changing the Smail config file, mail arriving here which is
addressed to comgate or com9 is being passed back to the campus mail host (and
expiring after 30 hops).

What must be done to get email to recognize the change?

NOTE:  Replies please to crawford@eleceng.uct.ac.za.

Thanks.

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