How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[John Summerfield]

Chris G wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 03:35:55PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Chris G wrote:
>>
>>> But the real issue is that I can't find *any* address that delivers
>>> mail locally.  Therefore whatever I put in /etc/aliases as the actual
>>> recipient of root mail it fails.
>> I haven't followed the thread,
>> but what happens if you just say "mail -s Test chris" ?
>>
> It fails, sendmail attempts to send it to chris at home.isbd.net which it
> decides is out there in the internet somewhere.
> 


You might have an mx record added to your DNS configuration.

I still think you've set your host name in sendmail's configuration.
Adding home.isbd.net to local-host-names might help.






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