Sebastian Steinlechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> When I send mail to xyz@localhost with pine, qmail returns the mail as
> undeliverable, as it tries to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (senfpott.gysar is my machine - obviously, it's not connected to the internet
> with that domain name...) Of course, if have an entry in controls/locals that
> says: localhost senfpott.gysar So why doesn't qmail accept mails @localhost?
> Or is this a problem with pine?

qmail-inject (which is called by the sendmail wrapper) appends
/var/qmail/control/defaultdomain to any hostname not containing a dot.
It's in the manpage for qmail-inject.

The quick solution is to send your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
localhost.

Charles
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Charles Cazabon                            <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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