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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