[ALUG] Re: How to make sendmail deliver mail locally?

Eur Ing Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Mon Feb 26 13:25:05 GMT 2007


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:52:08PM -0000, Mark Ridley wrote:
> >
> > How do I tell sendmail that localhost is 'here'?  Even better would be
> > if I could tell sendmail that home.isbd.net is 'here' too but maybe
> > that's expecting too much!
> 
> Add domains that are local to local-host-names.
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/mail/local-host-names
> # local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.
> 
I've already done that:-

    home# more /etc/mail/local-host-names
    # names of hosts for which we receive email
    home.isbd.net

It's surely not necessary/useful to put localhost in there it it?

-- 
Chris Green



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