[LUAU] Sendmail

[Chris Wong]

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Zachary Taylor wrote:

> Ok, I have a stupid problem, which I have been trying to solve with a couple
> of members offline, but I am still stuck. What I want to know is what do I
> have to do to send mail to an account on the same computer. I installed
> RedHat 5.2 and if I login as root (just an example) and I try to send mail
> to an account on the same computer, say ztaylor, the mail never reaches the
> destination. I have tried addressing it to ztaylor at 192.168.1.1 and
> ztaylor at zach.zach.org (The ip and domain name are made up since it is not
> connected to the outside.) After the install what do I need to do to be able
> to send mail to another user account on the same computer.

Check your entries in your /etc/hosts file.
See if your machine is listed. Also, check your hostname, dnsdomainname,
etc. See if theyu're configured for zach.org.

> PS. when I do "mailq" it shows all the messages I have in the queue, like
> they are not making it out.								Zach

Which they aren't. Is there a reason associated with the messages in the
queue?