Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:20:04 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Feroz=20F.=20Basir?=" <dbase77@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail Message-ID: <20031223171623.J48498@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20031223160016.34726.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031223160016.34726.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Feroz F. Basir wrote: > Hi, > > My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use > DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I > thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our > mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to > resolve mail.domain.com to ip. > > Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9 just to > resolve odmain.com if I send to john@domain.com? > Hi! You can also tell sendmail to resolve hosts first through /etc/hosts, and then try DNS. default is DNS first. angua 17:19 >cat /etc/mail/service.switch hosts files dns HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)help
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