sending mail on lan...

[Jerry LeVan]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:

>
> On Aug 1, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
>
>> Grrr,
>>
>> I can send mail all over the internet but I can't send
>> mail to the machines on the local lan :(
>
> You don't send mail to machines on the lan you send mail to the  
> server where those machines pick up their mail. That is most lan  
> machines aren't MTAs and MDAs.
>
> -dhan

That sounds wonky...I am running postfix on both machines...there has to
be some way to send mail directly from one machine to the other...

Once upon a time, many years ago we had a bunch of AT&T machines and I
was able to send mail by specifying an actual ip address. "Mail" does
not seem to like that ;(

Jerry