mail to another machine on the LAN

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Oct 26 22:23:15 UTC 2010


Hiisi writes:

> Hi, all!
> I would like to send messages to another machine on my home LAN. My
> current configuration is:
> Main computer (F12, serves as router), is connected to the Internet via
> eth0. It shares its connection for two LAN machines - one is Win XP
> laptop connected to the main computer on eth1 and the other is sitting
> on eth2. It is an old Pentium III charged with Scientific Linux (I want
> to send mail to this machine from main computer). Currently I'm unable
> to send mail to it using this command on the router:
> mail <user>@192.168.3.30
> where <user> is the desired user on that host and 192.168.3.30 is host
> IP. The message sends but nothing appears in <user>@192.168.3.30
> mailbox :-(
> How can I fix it?
> By the way, I'm able to send mail to that user from any other account on
> that computer.
> Please advise!

What happens when you run:

telnet 192.168.3.30 25


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