[LUNI] Sendmail setup guide?

[Scott Lockwood]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:48 -0600, Samir Faci wrote:
> *shrug* never had a problem with it.  I think they have a spectacular
> documentation like I said in my first email gentoo and ubuntu seem to
> be the most active communities right now.
> Whether you like the gentoo way or not, it still provides a howto
> guide step by step on how to get the job done.
> Either way, the individual concerned I believe found a solution using
> sendmail which was his original question.
> --
> Samir

Mostly. I'm down to one last problem. 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 equally useless. 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?