no mail between my linux boxes

[Johan Lozano]

> > On Monday 25 July 2005 20:53, nodata wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:51 +0200, Johan Lozano wrote:
> > > > hi list,
> > > >
> > > > i have a problem with mail in my network.
> > > > when i send an email from one box to an other, the mail do not arrive.
> > > > even from the command-line
> > > >     mail johan at mbfrodo
> > How are you doing lookups for 'mbfrodo'?
> > 
> > Can you do a ping mbfrodo?
> > 
> > If it sais unknown host, then you should either run a name server on your 
> > local network (if it is big enough) and have it keep track of all internal 
> > hostnames, or, if your network is only a few computers, and they have fixed 
> > ip's, edit your /etc/hosts file and add the following line
> > 
> > iptofrodo 	fulladdressoffrodo		mbrfodo
> > 
> > An example, in our network, all computernames are
> > 
> > name.vlaamse-kern.com
> > 
> > then to reach our giga server, by just typing giga, we have the following in 
> > hosts
> > 
> > 192.168.0.20		giga.vlaamse-kern.com	giga
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > Andy


ping is ok to the 3 boxes
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