On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:27:08PM -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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, > >postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 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. > > I think just add the name ("home.isbd.net") to /etc/mail/local-host-names. Yes, I just found that file (by reading sendmail.cf) and I have added home.isbd.net to it, it doesn't work, I have restarted sendmail. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list