Re: Sendmail to sendmail

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From: Paul Black
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:00

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dford@ansur.demon.co.uk (David Ford) wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I want to send mail from one linux bos to another on my local network.
> 
> Sendmail won't send the mail because it can't find a nameserver to look up
> the machine names on.
> 
> I really don't want to run a name server for four machines, is there any
> way to get sendmail to use the 'hosts' file or better just deliver the mail
> without checking the address if it is local.

I use the following setup to get one box to forward to another without
using DNS:
divert(-1)dnl
include(`../m4/cf.m4')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
FEATURE(`nullclient', `[gammon.local]')
FEATURE(nocanonify)

It might help you get to where you want to be.

Paul

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