fbsd4.9 sendmail

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Feroz F. Basir wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use
> DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I
> thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our
> mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to
> resolve mail.domain.com to ip.
>
> Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9 just to
> resolve odmain.com if I send to john at domain.com?
>
Hi!

You can also tell sendmail to resolve hosts first through /etc/hosts,
and then try DNS. default is DNS first.

angua 17:19 >cat /etc/mail/service.switch
hosts files dns

HTH
Olaf

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