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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Q: how to use sendmail with /etc/hosts Message-ID: <DrwrKM.A7F.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <4nuen6$83d@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> <4nulm3$ja5@sidhe.hsc.fr> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:50:45 GMT Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:28226 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20417 In article <4nulm3$ja5@sidhe.hsc.fr> roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) writes: >> I try to run sendmail at a very small equipment, "only" two >> FreeBSD boxes (2.1R and 960501 SNAP). So don't want to run DNS. >Use the following lines in your .mc file: > >FEATURE(nodns) >FEATURE(nocanonify) I assume this disables the use of DNS completely. Is there an easy way to make sendmail obey the host.conf file? I have three machines on a network that is sometimes connected to the outside world, and I'd like it to be able to deliver mail on the local network when it's not connected. -- Richard -- How to have fun on Usenet, #1: Post a message to alt.sex saying "please take me off the Cindi Crawford nude pix mailing list, it's filling up my mailbox". Be sure to set followups to include misc.test and sci.aquaria.