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Date:      Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:17:26 +0100
From:      Simon Morgan <sjmorgan@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail stalling during boot
Message-ID:  <de63970c0508180917673cd8dc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4304B224.5050504@mac.com>
References:  <de63970c05081808561a25cf9c@mail.gmail.com> <4304B224.5050504@mac.com>

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On 8/18/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> You really, really want to give your machine a real hostname, which is in=
 the
> DNS, reverses properly, and has MX records for the domains it handles mai=
l for
> set up, if you want to run sendmail and do mail correctly.
>=20
> If you are only relaying mail to another smart host which will do all of =
your
> relaying for you (commonly your ISP's SMTP server will do so), and you do=
 not
> need sendmail to do DNS lookups, consider FEATURE(nocanonify).

I should have mentioned that I only want sendmail to deliver local mail. Su=
rely
there must be a way to do this without doing all of the above?



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