Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:39:16 -0000 From: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net> To: "'jpersinger@greenmachine.net'" <jpersinger@greenmachine.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Relay section needs appending Message-ID: <FB7CAC781DB6D311BEE800805FE6FADA2F4D27@camexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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The /etc/hosts file has nothing to do with mail, per se. It is simply a convenient place to store name to address mappings, like DNS but on a much smaller scale. The second jpersinger in your example is just a local alias for the machine, so that you can connect to it using just jpersinger, instead of having to type out the whole hostname. For the hosts table to work properly, all the machines on your local network should have a line in the file and, each machine needs a full copy of the file. With respect to the underlying question (which I guess is something to do with using a relay host for sending/recieving e-mail), you need to give us more details of what you curretnly have set up (mail programs, etc), what functionality you _expect_ to see, and what symptoms are being seen. Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Persinger [mailto:jpersinger@greenmachine.net] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:42 PM > To: 'john b p melesky'; Jim Persinger > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: RE: Relay section needs appending > > > That was the file.....It contained: > > IP, then what appears to be a system name, and then a send name. For > example: > > 63.174.216.138 jpersinger.greenmachine.net jpersinger > > is the first jpersinger, the machine name or the user name? > or is the second > the user name? > > All other users can not send mail, but can get it. > > Mine works as expected. > > > Thanks > > Jim Persinger > -----Original Message----- > From: john b p melesky [mailto:john@tyr.internal] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 9:30 AM > To: jpersinger@greenmachine.net > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Relay section needs appending > > > The only file i can think of is /etc/hosts. Try 'man hosts' > for the file > format. > > -johnnnnnnnn > > > I (with the help from a friend who is not available) > installed FreeBSD > this > > weekend. It appeared that DNS was failing so had to modify a file to > contain > > all of the IPs and PC names....Can you tell me where that > file is and the > > name of it? I do remember that it had 'Relay' contained in it. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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