sendmail seems to ignore the entries in /etc/hosts, relying instead on doing a DNS lookup for each message. smail does this also. Is there a way to configure it to look first at /etc/hosts and use the DNS only if the address cannot be resolved there? I assume it doesn't use /etc/host.conf, because that already has:
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