How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:20 PM +1030 11/13/07, Tim wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 18:35 +0000, Chris G wrote:
>> I don't *want* this machine to handle my E-Mail!!!!!!!
>
>That doesn't change how it works!!!  ;-)  Internal, or world-wide, SMTP
>does its tricks in the same manner.  If you ask it to send mail to a
>domain, and it does an MX record lookup, and is told a server to use, it
>may well try and use it.

AFAICT, the issue is triggered by the domain  being added to local mail,
such as root's mail.  If that stops happening, then the mail will be
delivered locally (as experiment showed).  So, what is adding the domain to
local mail?

Something useful might be learned by changing confLOG_LEVEL to 11 ("address
translations") or more in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, restarting sendmail, and
inspecting the spew.
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