On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:47:43AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 03:35:55PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Chris G wrote: >>> >>>> But the real issue is that I can't find *any* address that delivers >>>> mail locally. Therefore whatever I put in /etc/aliases as the actual >>>> recipient of root mail it fails. >>> I haven't followed the thread, >>> but what happens if you just say "mail -s Test chris" ? >>> >> It fails, sendmail attempts to send it to chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx which it >> decides is out there in the internet somewhere. > > > You might have an mx record added to your DNS configuration. > > 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. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
