Ok thanks for the time. Its now fixed. I was looking in webmin, and noticed that localhost was not in the Masq list. Now it all works again. Thanks for the off list replies Gavin Denby wrote:

I am setting up a simple sendmail replacement for an old redhat machine with a dying hard drive.

I decided to use a newer distro and went to slackware.

I have copied the old data from the sendmail.cf files over and everything runs well until I send a local mail from console.

Instead of getting mail from user(a)domainname.com the machine name is added, and i get user(a)machinename.domainname.com

Of course if you reply this gets to be a real mess.

Clients accessing via pop are ok , its just local automated messages that are causing issues.

I have set Dj$w.domainname.com

I have commented out all classes.

I added DMdomainname.com

I made the start with M4, is there something I can add there that will fix this ??

I hoped Masquerade_as(domainname.com)dnl would be enough, but still the machine name appears in the mail address ... ARGHHH !!!!!

I planned to add an auto mail tool, but not until this is fixed.

What have I missed ???

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