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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have mandrake 7.2 set up on a machine and I use it
as a proxy server and mail server.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As a pop server I have cucipop and postfix as smtp.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The machine is on our school network and as such does
not have a proper domain name.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I gave it the name proxy.com when I first set it up
as a proxy server.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I later added the pop and smtp servers and was able
to give staff members email address like <a href="mailto:xxx@phs.com">xxx@phs.com</a></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Postfix and cucipop were quite happy with this host name.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I’ve tried updating to mandrake 9 and have run
into trouble with the host name. Postfix does not like proxy.com as a
host name.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I’ve tried leaving the host name blank at
installation and of course the machine then becomes localhost.localdomain.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Postfix is quite happy with email addresses in the
form <a href="mailto:xxx@localhost.loacldomain">xxx@localhost.loacldomain</a> but
this does not make much sense to staff members. I’d like to move up
to mandrake 9 but keep our email addresses as <a
href="mailto:xxxx@proxy.com">xxxx@proxy.com</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What am I doing wrong? I would welcome advice.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Peter Hughes</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Parkes</span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:Arial'>High School</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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