How to get mail to local destinations delivered?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Mon Nov 12 18:35:44 UTC 2007
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
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