Sendmail

[Tenny]

When I try to sendmail through my forum (VBulletin 2.2.6) I keep getting this error:

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to pbimail3.prodigy.net.:
>>> MAIL From:<apache@localhost.localdomain> SIZE=715
<<< 553 5.1.8 <apache@localhost.localdomain>... Domain of sender address apache@localhost.localdomain
does not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error


Sendmail works if i specify as a domain that works heh; but how can i change this? In httpd.conf i added my own name, but still no luck.

Any help would be great; (I've gotta get up for work in less than 2 hours... yay... lol, been up for ever working on this box heh.)

[flippantfig]

this is a complete shot in the dark but what happens when you change the senders address apache@localhost.localdomain to something else like apache@tuxhome.linuxnest or something else (maybe an ISP domain or something)? It looks like prodigy.net cant negotiate/resolve to a localhost domain so changingmight give some kind of different result.

Why do I say this? Well I had send mail errors when I had it running it via evolution (different kettle of fish I know but...) I managed to solve them by changing the domain from localhost to my isp name. Bit of a fudge but it worked.

EDIT:

Just rereading all of that I think I explained a way of doing what you have already done. Sorry.

[Tenny]

Thats what I'm trying to figure out how to do. When I changed the information in /etc/hosts; the mail didn't come back, it just disappeared somewhere (Didn't get to the email account nor did it get sent back). When I changed the admin info in httpd.conf nothing happened, just had the same problems as before.

Just trying to figure out how / where I can specify the senders address in apache like that?

[Tenny]

Fixed the problem...

If anyone else has this problem they might want to try
/etc/resolv.conf

I didn't have a domain specified.. added one (even though its not my domain on the computer; it worked... Not sure why / how but that's not for me to bother with, just wanted it working! hehe)

Thanks for the help anyway flippantfig