You may need to create a local name server. Create a "domain" for
yourself and this way qmail will be able to resolve the destination for
your machine.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Attila Csosz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:44 AM
> To: Giulio Orsero
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: local messages, how?
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:59:34PM +0200, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:40:29 +0200, hai scritto:
> >
> > >I've installed qmail on my linux box. It works nice with remote
> messages but
> > >I'd like to use it with local messages( for example I'd like to
> redirect
> > >cron messages to a normal user account or I'd like to send message
> another
> > >user )
> > >When I set up qmail I ran ./config-fast localhost.
> >
> > I think this put "localhost" in me.
> > Qmail doesn't like this, it wants something with dots in me.
> > So put a bogus name in control/me, something with dots:
>
> No change. It don't work still.
>
> I have the following files in /var/qmail/control; in every file a
> string
> 'localhost'
>
> -----------
> total 7
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 1024 JUN 18 15:15 .
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 1024 JUN 5 21:58 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 JUN 5 21:57 defaultdomain
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 JUN 18 13:52 locals
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 JUN 18 17:40 me
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 JUN 5 21:57 plusdomain
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 JUN 5 21:57 rcpthosts
> -------------
>
>
> > mymachine.mydomain.dom
> >
> > Ciao.
> >
>
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