mail to another machine on the LAN

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Oct 27 10:37:47 UTC 2010


On 10/27/2010 06:20 PM, Hiisi wrote:
> OK, thank you, guys. Now I'm able to telnet to 192.168.3.30 on port 25
> and can leave a mail for user on that machine. However it's still
> impossible to send mail to <user>@192.168.3.30 from router. The message
> is returned with error (reason: 550 Host unknown). It's name resolution
> problem, right? What should I change and on which machine to solve it?
> And once more time about my configuration: I don't worry about intrusion
> on the the LAN. There's nobody except me and my brother. I think I can
> even turn off SELinux and iptables on that machine. It will receive
> messages only from router.

I have seen a router where if you wanted to use an IP address instead of
a hostname you had to format the email address as user@[192.168.3.30] to
prevent the router from trying to do a DNS lookup.


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