From: vladinator on
I am using Sendmail 8.13.5 on Ubuntu 6.10. I keep getting the following
error, and nothing I do seems to be able to fix it. Google has been
less
than helpful, as has ubuntu's official and non-official support forums,
and sendmail.org's documentation has been sadly unhelpful. Sendmail,
it
seems, cannot find the local host name. This is despite it being
correctly set in /etc/hosts, in /etc/mail/local-host-names, in DNS,
etc.
I've verified that DNS works. All other errors have been squashed. When
issuing a make all, or a sendmailconfig in /etc/mail, I get the follow
error:

WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be
reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I?

The sendmail.org documentation suggests the use of
FEATURE(use_cw_file),
which is already in my .mc

It's interesting to note that ";; connection timed out; no servers
could
be reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I?" actually shows
up in the sendmail.cf in a variety of locations (like $j). Manually
editing the .cf (bad, I know) and restarting sendmail seems to have no
beneficial effect.

Even our local sendmail guru is confused. Anyone have any other ideas?