no mail between my linux boxes

[Andy Pieters]

HI
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


> > email does not reach to his destination
> >
> > mail outside my netwerk woks fine.
> > what can be the possible cause?
> >
> >
> > Johan Lozano
> > MicroBit, Duffel
> > E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be
> >
> > GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > fedora-list at redhat.com
> > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>
> What do your mail logs say?

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