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Re: mail question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent R. Frazier)
Sun Nov 29 22:50:23 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 20:42:30 -0700
From: "Kent R. Frazier" <kfrazier@NMSU.Edu>
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John H Darrah wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Kent R. Frazier wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the help, but I still have a problem.
> > I can send messages to the root account just fine, but when I try to
> > send a message to one of the user accounts I get the following error
> > from pine (using my account as an example):
> >
> > [mail not sent <Kent@amethyst.frazier.home>...User unknown]
>
> Don't send to a fully qualified domain name, just
> send to "Kent@amethyst" and then sendmail will
> know it is local. Assuming "amethyst" is your
> machine name, make sure that it is an alias for
> your machine in the /etc/hosts file like the
> following:
>
> 192.168.1.1 amethyst.fraizer.home amethyst
>
> Set the above to your IP of course ;-)
I tried this and I get the same error. My IP is the same as the default
localhost. (120.0.0.1)
My /etc/hosts file was:
120.0.0.1 amethyst amethyst.frazier.home
so I changed it to look like your example but with the same IP.
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