On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:05:05AM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:53 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > home$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > 220 home.isbd.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.1/8.14.1; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 > > 13:52:10 GMT > > help > > 214-2.0.0 This is sendmail > > 214-2.0.0 Topics: > > 214-2.0.0 HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA > > 214-2.0.0 RSET NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY > > 214-2.0.0 EXPN VERB ETRN DSN AUTH > > 214-2.0.0 STARTTLS > > 214-2.0.0 For more info use "HELP <topic>". > > 214-2.0.0 To report bugs in the implementation see > > 214-2.0.0 http://www.sendmail.org/email-addresses.html > > 214-2.0.0 For local information send email to Postmaster at your site. > > 214 2.0.0 End of HELP info > > quit > > 221 2.0.0 home.isbd.net closing connection > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > > > But mail to home.isbd.net fails. > > If you do "dig home.isbd.net MX" or "dig isbd.net MX" as command lines, > is the answer the IP for the machine you expect to handle your mail? > I don't *want* this machine to handle my E-Mail!!!!!!! Sorry! I'll try and explain in more detail. The *only* thing I want to be able to do is read mail for root on my desktop machine without logging in as root. This machine has *no* mail connectivity to the outside world, the router blocks incoming SMTP, I don't send mail from it. All I want is for the user 'chris' on this machine to be able to receive mail sent to 'root' on this machine, that's all. However the desktop machine *is* visible to the outside world as home.isbd.net for http and ssh connections, this is why there is a home.isbd.net entry in the /etc/hosts file. I read all my 'real' mail (like this mailing list, and personal E-Mail) on another machine completely that isn't at home. > > Mail uses MX records, when done properly, not A records (nor entries in > hosts file, I think - I think MX will supersede them, too). > > If the MX record points to somewhere else, that's where the mail will go > to. Is this domain your own, or are you making use of your ISPs? And > is it set up properly. > > (I've done a whois lookup, but that's no guarantee that we're chatting > to the same person.) > A whois of isbd.net or isbd.co.uk shows me! ISBD Ltd. is my small business. -- Chris Green
