> The computer I use mainly is called baby.espersunited.com My server box > is called bullet.espersunited.com. I don't have any kind of local DNS > for my network, just /etc/host files (each computer has a copy of the > same file) I want baby's local mail to be sent to bullet so that I can > retrieve it in the same account as all my other mail (non-local). > Theoretically I should just have to edit /etc/mail/aliases on baby to > say that root's mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but > every time I try to send mail from baby to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get the error that says "Could not > send mail for 4 hours", etc, so I think that my /etc/hosts file is not > adequate to serve as DNS. Do I need to set up a local DNS server, or is > there an easier way?
Yes. Rather than running a full-blown mail server on baby, emerge ssmtp. It's a simple smtp forwarding system that you'll configure to connect to bullet; any mail sent from baby will be directly forwarded to bullet for delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
