Re: how to configure sendmail to send mail locally?

2002-12-27 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:07:37AM +0200, Alistair Phillips wrote: > Hi there, > > I had the exact same problem that you had, what with not being able to send > mail to local persons. The error turned out to be that /etc/hosts was > missing the following > > ::1localhostlocalhost >

Re: cannot connect to an ISP with ppp

2002-12-27 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:56:40AM -0600, Shane Kinney wrote: > I'm certainly no expert on ppp, however, it seems that your going to > want to add a dns entry to the /etc/resolv.conf file. Talk to your ISP > and find out what you need to use for a dns server, then add the > information like this:

how to configure sendmail to send mail locally?

2002-12-19 Thread Juha Erkkila
it seems i can't send mail to anyone locally. shouldn't sendmail do this? aot% date Thu Dec 19 14:46:26 EET 2002 aot% mail -s test je@localhost i think this should work, but it doesn't. no mail for me! EOT aot% mail No mail for je aot% su Password: aot# mailq -Ac /var/spool/clien

cannot connect to an ISP with ppp

2002-12-19 Thread Juha Erkkila
hello again, i installed FreeBSD 4.7, and it seems i can't get a ppp connection to my ISP to work. i didn't have this problem with FreeBSD 4.3, (and don't have in linux), so i guess i must have done something differently this time :-/ here's some info on my configuration: aot# hostname aot aot