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Subject: Re: sendmail stalling during boot
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On 8/18/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> You really, really want to give your machine a real hostname, which is in=
 the
> DNS, reverses properly, and has MX records for the domains it handles mai=
l for
> set up, if you want to run sendmail and do mail correctly.
>=20
> If you are only relaying mail to another smart host which will do all of =
your
> relaying for you (commonly your ISP's SMTP server will do so), and you do=
 not
> need sendmail to do DNS lookups, consider FEATURE(nocanonify).

I should have mentioned that I only want sendmail to deliver local mail. Su=
rely
there must be a way to do this without doing all of the above?