For future reference read the Linux Network Administrator's Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html
for everything you wanted to know about how Linux/Unix OSs look at email. For this time though - Yes your machine could send mail directly. In that case, you wouldn't need a smarthost. But some machines are not connected 24/7. My home machines get shut down when they are not in use. In my case I prefer to use a smarthost to deliver mail for me. A smarthost _is_ connected 24/7 and will attempt to resend mails if it can't connect the first time. Does that help? dar On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > well, here is what i discovered wrt questions shyamal had asked. > > i am yet to understand the term smtp smart host. > > the way i look at it is, i am connected to the net. i have dns servers > resolving hostnames for me. do i still need something else *on some > other machine* to send mails? > > anyway, here are answers: > > so far as smarthost is concerned, i do not know yet! but frankly, i > think a machine with the net access and dns access should be in a > position to send e-mails independent of other machines (read - > smarthost). of course, correct me if i am wrong > > yes. i can do dns lookup from my machine. dig throws back some numbers - > but doesnt report an error. dig -t A returned some nice looking data. so > dns lookup seems not to be a problem. by the way, do not all machines > who have a dns server entry have dns lookup ability? > > so, some solution on this? > > thanx again > > -sandip > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
