Jerry Moody wrote:
>
> Thanks for the responses.  It turns out postfix was installed, just
> not started.  I started it and smartd, et al, can now send mail to
> local users.  I still get "no host found" when sending to an internet
> address, but I can manage using a local user for now.

If I understand you correctly, the issue isn't sending to an Internet
address, it's sending to the Internet.   Your ISP at home probably
filters port 25 so that the only mail server you can send directly to
from their network is their own SMTP server.  This is common practice,
if a very sad statement about the state of most home machines (they do
it to keep home users from spamming when their Windows systems become
bot zombies).

If you want it to be able to send out across the Internet, you'll need
to use your ISP's "smarthost" as a go-between.  This would be the case
no matter what mail server you decided to use.

- Ron
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