On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Craig Zody wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a Red Hat 8.0 box with updates that is giving me fits. Whenever I > try to send mail locally (within the system), it doesn't go through. > > When I use the '/bin/mail' command with the -v (verbose) option, it > appears that mail is trying to connect to localhost.com: > > >>[root@bitbrothers root]# mail -s test craig -v > >>test > >>. > >>Cc: > >>craig... Connecting to localhost.com. via relay... > > This is where it all stops. On all other Red Hat 8.0 boxes that I have, > the same command connects to "localhost.localdomain. via relay..." > (instead of localhost.com) and everything works as it should. > > Can anyone point me in a useful direction? > > I have removed the "search com" line from /etc/resolve.conf and I've I assume typo, but anyway. /etc/resolv.conf > played with adding "127.0.0.1 localhost.com" to /etc/hosts to 'fool' the > mail program, but that didn't work either. the entry should be 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Compare to the other boxes you have. Cheers, Michael -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
