How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Mon Nov 12 09:35:41 UTC 2007


On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:28:16PM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> I don't want to open up port 25 and it seems a bit silly anyway to
>> send mail on such a long round trip.  Is there any way I can tell
>> sendmail that home.isbd.net is localhost (or 192.168.1.1)?  I have an
>> entry for home.isbd.net in my /etc/hosts file which is:-
>>     192.168.1.1     home    home.isbd.net
>
> Try adding 127.0.0.1 as home.isbd.net in the hosts file.
>
There's a big comment in /etc/hosts saying that breaks things.

-- 
Chris Green




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