On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:25:37 -0500
Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> 
> I haven't messed with postfix for a while but you will be able to send
> emails to individuals and newsgroups, etc, via postfix using
> "localhost" or any other name you set but you wont be able to post to
> this mailing list or any other (as far as I know) and people who
> receive the email wont be able to reply to it because "localhost" is
> not valid.  You would also run into problems if you made up a name
> because any attempt by others to reply to any such email would fail
> because your domain name would not be in any dns table.

Short version, I should just keep using my ISP to send until I get more
of a grip on DNS and my own domain...

Thanks for the very informative reply!

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