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From: Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ah! Now mail has stopped coming!
Date: 4 Jan 1996 07:57:51 GMT
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Mail is arriving again!

The cause was this:

Inside /etc/sysconfig

there is the 

hostname=

line.

Yesterday I was trying to figure out why I kept on getting the "bad 
value tao.inJapan.net" so I changed that line from

hostname=tao.inJapan.net

to

hostname=tao

The error on startup went away, but now it seems it was also the cause 
of the mail not being able to be processed!

As soon as I changed the line back to 

hostname=tao.inJapan.net

mail started coming through again.

The "bad value" error message also stopped appearing at start up. 
Perhaps that had to do with the hosts file setting?

Doug Lerner,
Tokyo