help with local email

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Thanks for the suggestion, Janina. I will look into that and see if it
helps. 
chuck


On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi, Chuck:
> 
> Wonder if your problem is related to mine? In any case here's a stab at
> a possibility--not necessarily a right answer.
> 
> I noticed, while working on my sendmail problem, that there is a field in
> the sendmail configuration file (/etc/sendmail.cf on my system) to specify
> which addressees should be handled locally. I didn't read the docs on
> this but understand it to mean that you could specify usernames and
> perhaps a unique local domain e.g. x.y.z.com which would have to be set
> up, of course.
> 
> PS: Just changing the field doesn't change the setting. You need to
> recompile the configuration with m4 and restart sendmail for it to take
> effect.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> > Hi...
> >
> > I hope someone can help me set something up that ought to be really
> > simple. I want to be able to send email from one user account to another
> > on my system without going through my ISP. When I use an address such as
> > "chuckh at localhost" which I thought ought to work, it still sends the mail
> > to my ISP, from where I must fetch it with fetchmail. I do not seem to be
> > reading the right howtos or man pages to get a clue on what must be done
> > here.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
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