domains and the mail???

[cotfessi]

when I installed debian the other night, it asked me to name my machine. Now when I'm at the prompt I see:

[user@newHostName: ~]$

I'm guessing that this is now what my host name is. But, to further complicate things, I have a DSL line with a dynamic IP to which I have a registered domain(mydomain.com) pointing to using centralinfo.net One of my goals for this weekend is to set up my internal mail. Do I need to specify somewhere on my machine this domain name? what about my host name? Does that enter into the mail equation at all?? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/confused.gif

Thanks for the help...

-cotfessi

[dvdnut]

i am interested in this setup too.

wrt the hostname

do you have linuxconf?
if so you can set your host name to your domain name if you wish.

i think
hostname <hostname> at the cli works but i aint sure of the syntax at present

sorry of little help but i tried http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif