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