sending email within 5 node network

[ccb at kukla.tiac.net (Charles C. Bennett, Jr.)]

You have a private network.  Let's assume you have them connected with
ethernet.  Let's also assume that you mail server has only one
ethernet card in it.

If you type "hostname" on the mail server do you get the fully
qualified host name assigned to the eth0 interface on this machine?

Sendmail logs errors and informational messages to /var/log/messages.
Are there interesting things showing up there?

If you create a message with pine and send it to yourself on your
machine, does sendmail create a maillog entry describing the
disposition of that message?  If not, perhaps your Pine is
misconfigured.  If so, what is the disposition?  Does it go into
/var/spool/mqueue and wait or does it go into
/var/spool/mail/<username>?  If it goes into /var/spool/mqueue there
could be something wrong with your network configuration - resolv.conf
is a common culprit.  If it shows up in /var/spool/mail/<username>
then Pine/Elm should be able to see it.  If not, one or both of these
is misconfigured.

ccb


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