sendmail local-host-names

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-12-06 10:35, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to collect mail for FreeBSD user charles on my Mac.
>
> The hostname of my FreeBSD box is:
> moe.local
>
> User charles has an account, has been added to the qpopper authentication
> database, and sendmail_enable="NO" is in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> In /etc/mail/local-host-names, I have:
> moe.local
> larry.local
> local
>
> It's working, but I think I have too many entries in local-host-names.
> What entries are necessary?

If your local hostnames are listed as names of one of the local IP
addresses in your /etc/hosts, then none is needed.  Sendmail will
discover the local addresses on its own.