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From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions regarding IP addresses and problems with PPP/Sendmail
Date: 26 Jul 1996 09:12:03 +0200
Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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In-reply-to: Ken Bigelow's message of Sat, 20 Jul 1996 19:59:00 -0700
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In article <31F19CF4.73DB@www.play-hookey.com> Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:

: You can use sendmail internally if you specify the destination 
: numerically, as in foo@[192.168.0.27], provided that node is in turned on 
: and recognized on your subnet. For any other approach, you're going to 
: have to do some serious configuration of sendmail.

I have already suggested the original poster to use Smail, but this
DNS problem should be easily solved with a local named that knows all
the local stuff and forwards to the ISP's named for things it doesn't
know. I use that setup at home, and it works quite well.
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