Did you check out the Smart Host option of the sendmail configuration? I don't remember exactly which flag it is, but you can configure it in rc.init, Once configured, Sendmail will send any Unknown mail to the address that you specify:-) cya l8r Leon leonmcclatchey@homemail.com Santiago Rodriguez wrote:
Hi all. I am in a network without DNS, all of us have the /etc/hosts and work with that. Our problems are with the mail. We just can't send mail. When we execute 'mail xxx@yyy' it says: xxx@yyy... Deferred: Name server: yyy.domain.: host name lookup failure domain is the domain of the localhost. Well, there is an entry in /etc/hosts for yyy and yyy.domain: 193.0.0.2 yyy yyy.domain and 'telnet yyy' or 'ftp yyy' or simply 'ping yyy' works perfectle. Also this instructions work with yyy.domain. We don't have and don't need DNS, so I don't know why it looks for a nameserver. Also I've seen that it looks it is not a problem with sendmail, because when I shut down the sendmail daemon and execute 'mail...' it says exactly the same. Anyway I began to read the sendmail.cf and it's a nightmare. I don't know what to do. Anyone had this problem? I've looked in dejanews and nobody gave a complete answer to this question although many people had the same problem. Bye.
Xanti
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