How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 11 23:22:52 UTC 2007


Chris G wrote:

>> I still think you've set your host name in sendmail's configuration.
>> Adding home.isbd.net to local-host-names might help.
>>
> I did try that and it didn't make any difference.  Doing a Google
> search for local-host-names revealed why, if the system is defined in
> /etc/hosts it shouldn't need to be in local-host-names as well.
> 
I'm sceptical about that; a part of your problem is that, when mail 
arrives, sendmail doesn't know what to do with it.

Have a close look at other files in /etc/mail that you have changed (and 
then those you haven't).



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