[luau] sendmail

[Ray Strode]

>      I got the sendmail daemon working ( just had to bind to the right 
> ip. duh).  I am having one problem though.  mail sent to 
> myaccount at 66.8.198.141 (my box ip) gets delivered to me just fine.  
> But, mail sent to  myaccount at MyHostMask.hawaii.rr.com  gets a failure 
> to deliver message...  ( relay denied ).

On my box there is a file called /etc/mail/local-host-names

inside it, it contains all hostnames that belong to me.

>      Not really a big deal, except, I was trying to subscribe to a 
> couple of mailing lists, and they don't seem to be able to handle 
> myaccount at 66.8.198.141.  Anybody have any ideas?

a lot of places won't accept addresses that don't have hostnames, 
because usually they are spam servers.

> Note:  I don't own a domain of my own or anything, .com, .net etc, is 
> there still something I could do?

Well you could buy a domain, or you could use one of the free dns things 
out there (myip.org, dyndns, d2g, etc...)

--Ray