Which hostname and domain to chose during installation?

[spline]

Hi all,

after getting into trouble with outgoing mails (my hostname and domain i entered during installation couldn't get resolved) and some hardware refreshs, i want to reinstall amahi from scratch.

One question i have is regarding the hostname and domain to choose during installation.
Currently i have hda.home.com 8which was the recommendation on some amahi installataion wiki)

As far as i understood, we all have a DDNS named something.yourhda.com. Under this adress, my hda should be reachable from "outside". For me, it should be spline.yourhda.com (this is shown in my control panel at https://www.amahi.org/users).
From "inside" i can access it with http://hda

So, does it make sense to give my hda the name "spline" and the domain "yourhda.com" if a will be asked during installation?
Or will i get into trouble?


Thanks and regards

spline

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

During the initial installation of Fedora 14, you could specify whatever you want for a hostname and domain. It should be whatever you indicated in your Amahi profile though.

When I do test installs, I do not configure a hostname or domain in the Fedora 14 setup. Then when I install Amahi, my profile indicates what I want my server to be know as.

Keep in mind that setting up your server to do mail is a bit more complicated. I do not believe the username.yourhda.com will resolve MX records for mail without some manual work. Keep in mind Amahi is not designed to be a mail server out of the box nor is it advertised as such.

Depending on what you need for a mail server, you might consider trying the Amahi Mail System which is currently under development. See the wiki at:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System

It is based off of a howtoforge.net tutorial and will allow you to add any existing mail account to it. Since its a virtual mail system, you can do quite a bit from what I have found so far. As designed, you can send mail on setup from your hda. Might be something that will work for you.

Hope this helps.

[spline]

Hi,

thanks for the reply.
I don't want to use my hda as a full blown mail server.
Yesterday i tried to configure my hda in a way, that the log files are mailed to my private mail account.
I followed the wiki to enable outgoing mail. Doesn't seem to work ;-((
I have no idea what went wrong, but my first guess was, that the hostname / domain configuration is wrong.
I get strange error messages in my hda root mailbox.

Regards

spline

[bigfoot65]

I tried that one a while back and did not work for me. It was initially documented using Fedora 12, so might need fixed to work with Fedora 14.

Have you tried this one?

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Outgoing_mail_via_gmail

[spline]

Hi Bigfoot,

thanks for the link to use GMail with Amahi.
I followed the instructions and changed some parameters as i do not use GMail but Web.de (German mail provider).
Finally it works!!!

I have no idea, why sendmail doesn't work on Amahi on F14. But Postfix is the better choice anyway (IMHO).

Thanks again and best regards



spline