sendmail local-host-names

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-12-06 12:11, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
> In the past, I was just *certain* I had to had something in
> local-host-names.  Oh, well.  :-)
>
> [charles at moe:~]$ echo '$=w' | sendmail -bt
> ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
> Enter <ruleset> <address>
> [IPv6:::1]
> moe
> [192.168.254.4]
> [IPv6:fe80::1]
> [IPv6:fe80::2a0:ccff:fe29:689d]
> moe.local
> localhost.local
> localhost
> larry.local
> [localhost.local]
> local
> [127.0.0.1]
>
> [root at moe:~]# rm /etc/mail/local-host-names
> [root at moe:~]# killall -HUP sendmail
> [root at moe:~]# echo '$=w' | sendmail -bt
> ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
> Enter <ruleset> <address>
> [IPv6:::1]
> moe
> [192.168.254.4]
> [IPv6:fe80::1]
> [IPv6:fe80::2a0:ccff:fe29:689d]
> moe.local
> localhost.local
> localhost
> [localhost.local]
> [127.0.0.1]

Well, it looks I was (at least partially) wrong.

One notable difference is that in the second case (without a local-host-names
file), the host name "larry.local" is not recognized as a local host name.

It may be a good idea to keep the local-host-names file in your case, to make
sure that Sendmail knows about both moe.local and larry.local.

- Giorgos