Re: Postfix newbie warning ....

On Sunday, November 14, 2004 at 11:30 CET,
Hitete <hitete@free.fr> wrote:

> Very new to this list.I'm a very newbie with postfix. I want to build =
my
> mail server behind a FW.
> =20
> I just started to install postfix on OPenBSD, and I get this message :
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> 13 13:23:02 smtp postfix/smtpd[5304]: warning: 127.0.0.1: hostname
> localhost verification failed: No such file or directory

I seem to recall this exact question being asked about a week ago.

Are you running Postfix chrooted? If yes, have you copied /etc/hosts to
/var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts?

> although my /etc/hosts is ok :
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> 127.0.0.1 smtp.myregistereddomain.com smtp

Why map 127.0.0.1 to the host's actual hostname instead of localhost?
It seems like a very bad idea.

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Magnus B=E4ck
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