On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:57 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > I thought keeping it simple and just using entries in /etc/hosts > for each was the way to start. So sendmail needs more, than that? If addresses are static, I'd expect that to work, it has for me. Though it's ages since I relied on hosts files, I use an internal DNS server, now. You'd want your IP address associated with your fully-qualified domain name (for that interface) and associated with any aliases that you use with it as well. e.g. 192.168.1.12 mailserver.example.com mailserver That way, if your mail server starts up thinking that it's "mailserver" *or* "mailserver.example.com" it finds its IP matches, and vice versa (when it asks to find out the name associated with its IP, it gets told the same answer). Generally it's the FQDN first, *then* aliases. The addresses should match what it thinks itself is, i.e. the address of its interface, regardless of any external public addresses (e.g. the external address is the address of your connection to the internet on the other side of a router). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
