How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[John Summerfield]

Chris G wrote:
> 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.
> 

He said "add," not "change" or "replace." It shouldn't take long to see 
what it breaks, if anything.


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