On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Gustav Schaffter spewed into the bitstream:
GS>I feel a little bit stupid here, but...
GS>
GS>I have had a few PCs in a LAN for more than a year. I have often sent
GS>mail between users *within* a PC, but I've never had the need to send
GS>mail between users in *different* PCs in my LAN. Until now... And it
GS>doesn't work...
GS>
GS>If I send a mail (using 'mail') from PC 'odin.yggdrasil.home' to user
GS>'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I get the mail in return with the error 'user
GS>unknown'. (Yes, the user 'gus' exists on freja.yggdrasil.home)
GS>
GS>What do I need to setup to make this work? What do I need to read?
If it's just a small network and you have MTA's listening on all hosts you
can do it this way and avoid these troubles (which are DNS issues BTW):
mailto:user@[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (where xxx == ip of destination host)
--
Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
GnuPG Public Key Available: http://www.pgp.net/wwwkeys.html
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
