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Re: smart-hosting through unlisted smtp server



On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:39:17PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
| Hey people. 
| 
| I'm using exim as my mail server, and I'd like to use the mail server
| on my firewall/router to relay mail for my internal network. The only
| problem is the fact that the hostname of my firewall/router does not
| exist in DNS, so the smart-hosting fails. 
| 
| Is there a way to tell my local mail servers to skip DNS and
| basically, "shut up and use it"?

add the name to /etc/hosts
or
use the IP instead of the name (in exim.conf)

-D

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