[CS-FSLUG] Sending E-mail's via Network

[Tim Young]

My guess is that you need to change your sendmail.cf file to tell your 
computer which domain to accept emails for.  By default, sendmail will 
receive local emails and try to deliver emails that are local.  By local, 
it defines it as being destined for localhost.

There are a few simple ways around this.  You can change your sendmail.cf 
file to receive for the domain "buddy".  If you use the buddy smtp server 
as your outgoing smtp server, you could also just send the email to 
"dmcglone" without any @buddy.  This gets resolved to a local email address 
and is usually delivered locally.

	- Tim

Frank Bax wrote:
> 
> I'm certainly no expert in this area, but I think you are getting 
> buddy.buddy and localhost.buddy because the system needs to resolve 
> partial host names (without a period) into a fully qualify hostname 
> (with at least one period).  I think it uses /etc/resolv.conf to do this 
> - my guess is you have a line 'search buddy' in there which adds 
> '.buddy' to the end of the 'buddy' hostname that contained no periods.  
> Somedays I like to make statements like this simply to see if anyone 
> tells me I don't know what I'm talking about.
>