On Tue, Dec 12, 2006, Doug Henry wrote:
> I'm trying to setup what I thought was an easy email system. I have two
> offline computers, and I want to simply send SMTP traffic back and forth. I
> have tried postfix, sendmail, and exim. I am missing something very
> fundamental because I get the same error with all three. I can send email
> locally on both machines, which of course works pretty much out of the box.
> When I try to send mail to the other computer, I always get a bounced email
> stating "Unrouteable address". This is my setup: two computers named comp1
> and
> comp2, running one of the MTAs mentioned above and mailx command line mail
> tool.
>
> on comp1:
> --------------
> echo "test" | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## works
> echo "test" | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## fails
>
>
> on comp2:
> --------------
>
> echo "test" | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## fails
> echo "test" | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## works
>
> I have researched and found the usual options for disabling dns lookup, but I
> still get the same error.
>
> I have tried the following under postfix:
> * disable_dns = yes
> * setting mynetworks to include my network/mask
>
> I have tried the following under exim:
> * removed host_lookup entry
> * added sender_unqualified_hosts and recipient_unqualified_hosts entries
> * tried ignore_target_hosts entry
>
> Under sendmail there was a ACCEPT_UNQUALIFIED_?? entry that could be defined.
>
> Does anyone else have any information I can use to simply send emails between
> two computers?
The Postfix transport(5) file should be of help for you. Try putting
"comp1 smtp:comp1" into the "transports" file on comp2 and a similar
entry for "comp2" on comp1.
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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