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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!usenet From: Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ah! Now mail has stopped coming! Date: 4 Jan 1996 07:57:51 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan (+81-3-5330-9385) Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4cg19v$dp0@gol2.gol.com> References: <4cfpg4$bfn@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.243.53.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:4cfpg4$bfn@gol2.gol.com Mail is arriving again! The cause was this: Inside /etc/sysconfig there is the hostname= line. Yesterday I was trying to figure out why I kept on getting the "bad value tao.inJapan.net" so I changed that line from hostname=tao.inJapan.net to hostname=tao The error on startup went away, but now it seems it was also the cause of the mail not being able to be processed! As soon as I changed the line back to hostname=tao.inJapan.net mail started coming through again. The "bad value" error message also stopped appearing at start up. Perhaps that had to do with the hosts file setting? Doug Lerner, Tokyo