Re: How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:08:22AM -0800, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:56:14PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> The comment says:-
>>     # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@xxxxxxxxxxx> says that 
>> 127.0.0.1
>>     # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine.  It causes 
>> problems
>>     # for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^)
>>     #
>
> Chris,
>
> Have a look at
>
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch21_:_Configuring_Linux_Mail_Servers
>
This *isn't* what I want to do, I don't *have* any "incoming mail" or
"outgoing mail"

> Note the 127.0.0.1 line they use.  It is about one quarter of the way down 
> the page.
>
> Doing this and removing your 192.168.1.1 line in hosts is a way to "tell 
> sendmail that home.isbd.net is localhost".
>
Yes, and I'm pretty sure it will screw up various other things.

> Depending on your configuration, you may be able to get away with only 
> removing the 192.168.1.1 line in /etc/hosts.  The Machine will know its 
> name is associated with 192.168.1.1 from 
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth*.
>
> Pete
>
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