Craig White wrote: >> /etc/hosts is easy, but will break whenever the IP numbers change. > ---- > unless I am missing something here, mail will still not work because it > will still query for a MX record for the domain and thus /etc/hosts is > not suitable for mail handling But does sendmail always query for an MX record? It seems to me from /var/log/maillog that sendmail (a) knows that it is running on helen.gayleard.com , and (b) recognizes that alfred.gayleard.com is on the same LAN. But it still sends the email to my ISP. Maybe I shouldn't define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.eircom.net')dnl ? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list