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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP! Stupid Email Question? Date: 25 Oct 1996 08:31:23 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <54ptsr$igc@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <01bbc221$ffd55160$9368d9ce@#res2211> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <01bbc221$ffd55160$9368d9ce@#res2211>, "Chia" <res2211@ix.netcom.com> writes: >If jsmoe@srv1.company.com addresses a message to adweeb@srv2.company.com, >how will each server's mailer deal with the message. Will srv1 realize Answer: It depends. _if_ Sendmail is properly compiled and configured, then no problem, the machines will exchange e-mail fine. Elderly versions of Sendmail actually used a compile option to turn on or off DNS support, the current version uses an option in the sendmail.cf file. You will need your hosts file to list the fully qualified machine name of not only the remote but your own machine as well. I have a series of mail articles on how to do all this that I started in January, check http://www.computerbits.com in the Network Community archives.