FQDN on a development machine
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:39 pm
I'm just now installing and tinkering around with postfix...third step asks for a 'mail name' or FQDN.
I realize now, why a mail system would "typically" need this information -- but on my development machine I don't have any domain name mapped to it. I access my dev box with a internal IP address of 192.168.1.102
It has a server name 'dev-server' but this isn't what the step is asking for is it? It wants a FQDN so that email sent locally, like:
In this case, the username 'hockey' would be fixed with the mail system FQDN, which if set to devnetwork.net woudl then become:
But what about my local setup -- with no domain name. Am I never to be able to test Postfix locally because I lack a FQDN?
Cheers
I realize now, why a mail system would "typically" need this information -- but on my development machine I don't have any domain name mapped to it. I access my dev box with a internal IP address of 192.168.1.102
It has a server name 'dev-server' but this isn't what the step is asking for is it? It wants a FQDN so that email sent locally, like:
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mail hockey
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hockey@devnetwork.netCheers