help with local email

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Chuck:

Please advise if that does give you the results you're looking for. I'm
going to need to solve the same issue myself once I get my more
fundamental current issue resolved! <grin>
 On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Charles
Hallenbeck wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, Janina. I will look into that and see if it
> helps.
> chuck
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > Hi, Chuck:
> >
> > Wonder if your problem is related to mine? In any case here's a stab at
> > a possibility--not necessarily a right answer.
> >
> > I noticed, while working on my sendmail problem, that there is a field in
> > the sendmail configuration file (/etc/sendmail.cf on my system) to specify
> > which addressees should be handled locally. I didn't read the docs on
> > this but understand it to mean that you could specify usernames and
> > perhaps a unique local domain e.g. x.y.z.com which would have to be set
> > up, of course.
> >
> > PS: Just changing the field doesn't change the setting. You need to
> > recompile the configuration with m4 and restart sendmail for it to take
> > effect.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Hi...
> > >
> > > I hope someone can help me set something up that ought to be really
> > > simple. I want to be able to send email from one user account to another
> > > on my system without going through my ISP. When I use an address such as
> > > "chuckh at localhost" which I thought ought to work, it still sends the mail
> > > to my ISP, from where I must fetch it with fetchmail. I do not seem to be
> > > reading the right howtos or man pages to get a clue on what must be done
> > > here.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > >
> > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
> > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (66% of Full)
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
>
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
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>
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