How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Sun Nov 11 22:27:28 UTC 2007


On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:04:34AM +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 14:28 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > What I *don't* quite understand is why sendmail thinks this is
> > isbd.net and why I couldn't tell it what the system should really be
> > called.  Everything else (apache, ssh, etc.) thinks it's called
> > home.isbd.net. 
> 
> Have you set those other services up explicitly, or are they all
> presuming something?
> 
They all appear to be using /etc/hosts.

e.g. I can browse home.isbd.net from this machine (which is
home.isbd.net) and I can ssh to home.isbd.net as well.  The only thing
it would appear that I can't do is send mail to home.isbd.net from
inside home.isbd.net.

-- 
Chris Green




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