Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 18:33:43 +0100 From: Xian <ian@codepad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sending mail between local computers Message-ID: <200504071833.43870.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <20050406210809.Y65233@frambozen.monochrome.org> References: <200504070130.40305.ian@codepad.net> <20050406210809.Y65233@frambozen.monochrome.org>
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On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:19, Chris Hill wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Xian wrote: > > I have two FreeBSD boxes running sendmail, how would make it so mail > > can be sent from one box to the other? > > Assuming they are both on your local network, as suggested in the > subject... You shouldn't have to do anything with sendmail. Just > configure the machines so each hostnames resolves, from the perspective > of the other machine. You could either create an /etc/hosts file on each > machine, or run DNS locally. Probably other ways as well. Let's say that > their hostnames are foo and bar - make it so that from foo you can 'ping > bar', and vice versa. > > Once that works, you ought to be able to log in to foo and send mail via > your favorite MUA to 'ian@bar' - note, that's just bar, not bar.com or > anything. Likewise you ought to be able to log in to bar and send mail > via your favorite MUA to 'ian@foo'. Assuming the user exists on both > machines, of course. > > I'm doing something like this with my internal mail at home, and it > works fine. > > > http://www.clanger9.org.uk/computer/explain.html > > Cute. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] That's exactly what I'm doing except the hosts are named hercules and pandora. A little exploring and I find that hercules can't telnet to pandora port 25 and the other way too. This looks like the mail "Sendmail + No Response from Port 25" I just spotted on the list. -- /Xian "Windows has detected that your mouse has moved. Reboot now for changes to take effect?" Unknown Author
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