How to get mail to local destinations delivered?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Nov 12 14:14:23 UTC 2007
Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:56:14PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Chris G wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:28:16PM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
>>>> Chris G wrote:
>>>>> I don't want to open up port 25 and it seems a bit silly anyway to
>>>>> send mail on such a long round trip. Is there any way I can tell
>>>>> sendmail that home.isbd.net is localhost (or 192.168.1.1)? I have an
>>>>> entry for home.isbd.net in my /etc/hosts file which is:-
>>>>> 192.168.1.1 home home.isbd.net
>>>> Try adding 127.0.0.1 as home.isbd.net in the hosts file.
>>>>
>>> There's a big comment in /etc/hosts saying that breaks things.
>> He said "add," not "change" or "replace." It shouldn't take long to see
>> what it breaks, if anything.
>>
> The comment says:-
>
> # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra at nvg.unit.no> says that 127.0.0.1
> # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine. It causes problems
> # for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^)
> #
>
It's broken _now_ Chris.
fwiw here's mine, where's that comment?
[root at potoroo mail]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
[root at potoroo mail]#
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John
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