How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:50 AM +0000 11/12/07, Chris G wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:35:50PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 4:49 PM +0000 11/10/07, Chris G wrote:
>> >I have a fairly default Fedora 7 installation, certainly the sendmail
>> >is just as it was installed.
>> >
>> >How do I get sendmail to deliver mail to local destinations?  The
>> >system's hostname is home.isbd.net and it's connected to the Internet
>> >via a router.  I have a CNAME set up at the hosting provider that
>> >hosts isbd.net to point at the static address of my ADSL connection.
>> >
>> >When I send mail from my system to a local address it gets the
>> >hostname added, thus mail gets sent to root at home.isbd.net,
>> >postmaster at home.isbd.net, chris at home.isbd.net, etc.  All of this
>> >fails because sendmail attempts to connect to the SMTP port of
>> >home.isbd.net, which isn't possible because my router's firewall
>> >doesn't accept connections on port 25.
>> >
>> >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
>> >
>> >but obviously sendmail is doing a DNS lookup for home.isbd.net which
>> >returns the 'external' IP address.
>>
>> You didn't show your entire /etc/hosts file.  Does it start with:
>>
>>     127.0.0.1    localhost localhost.localdomain
>>
>> with the 192.x.x.x line after it?
>
>Yes.  :-
>
>    # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
>    # that require network functionality will fail.
>    127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
>    ::1     localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>    192.168.1.1     home.isbd.net home
>    192.168.1.5     garage
>    192.168.1.10    chris
>    192.168.1.40    netpr
>    192.168.1.44    hp7310  HPEDDBB7        HP000D9D068F7D
>    192.168.1.254   speedtouch

That looks OK.
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