On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 11:25, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > > Thanks to Ben and Chad for helpful suggestions along these lines: You're welcome. > Sorry. I should have pointed out that I have a small network behind a > firewall, and the firewall serves up the DNS addresses to the machines > behind the firewall using DHCP. So I'm not sure how to use a hosts > file to keep track of addresses. I hate to go to the trouble of > setting up a DNS server for what seems like a trivial net. Is there > an alternative? Yes, the /etc/hosts file. Add what we told you to the /etc/hosts file of the mailserver and all will be well. The IP you use is the actual address of the machine on your LAN. > You're right --- my sendmail just does two things: > > 1. routes all the email for the various script outputs to me and > > 2. uses a smart host for any addresses not on my box. Then my above advice will suit you perfectly. -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020109/a27eee77/attachment.pgp