On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two linux boxes connected to an Ethernet hub. In the /etc/hosts file > on each computer I have the IP address, fully qualified name (for the local > domain) and alias of the other machine. I can ping and FTP the other box > without a problem. > > But if I try to email the other box, the email sits in the queue and > eventually I get an error message saying the domain couldn't be found and > the message is undeliverable. > > I thought that by having an entry in /etc/hosts the mail program would query > the other computer to see if there was an account on that host to receive > the email. > > Do I really need to set up one of the computers as the server on such a > simple network? > You have to make sure that POP3 is running as a service. As well, you're going to have to double check your POSTFIX configurations as well.
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