no mail between my linux boxes

[Roger Grosswiler]

> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:44 -0700, Mike Noble wrote:
>> 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 <mailto:johan at mbfrodo>
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Mail by default want to find an MX record in DNS for the system that is
>> receiving the mail.  Not sure what what mail client/server you are using
>> sendmail, postfix....etc. You can look up the documentation for the
>> mail server that is trying to send the mail and find out where you might
>> be able to shutoff the requirement for an MX record.
>
> Any RFC-compliant SMTP mail client should fall back to an A record in
> the absence of an MX record.
>
> The OP should look in the mail log file for his sending machine
> (/var/log/maillog by default) to see if the mail is actually leaving
> that machine, and if so, where it's going. Then, look at the mail log on
> the receiving machine to see what's happening to it.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if all machines are listening on localhost only
> (the default) and hence the mail is stuck on the sending machine because
> the receiving machine won't accept the connection.
>
> Paul.
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btw. is acting each machine as a smtp-server?????? normally, you go
picking your e-mails on o pop-imap-server and dont let act each
workstation as a mailserver.