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| Me running 8.12.8 on RH 9.0. For local delivery of mails withing
| the box, the mails are dispatched only when the 'To:' is of the
| form <username>@localhost.localdomain. I would like the mails to
| be locally dispatched when the 'To:' is:
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The problem was solved by editing my /etc/hosts file and adding
'<hostname>.localdomain' to the corresponding IP address because Sendmail
was appending '<hostname>.localdomain' to all the local (within the box)
mail's To: address.
From where does sendmail take this option ? I am yet to find out.My LOCAL_DOMAIN is localhost.localdomain in .mc file.