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Re: [cobalt-users] Sending e-mail behind firewall



> A quick and dirty would be to add an entry to /etc/hosts assigning a host
> name to 192.168.1.1 ... that should eliminate your problem. If you have
> hosts inside your nat/firewall trying to send email through the server
> which is also behind the same nat/firewall, you're going to have this
> problem ... there isn't a valid DNS server to answer reverse resolutions
> for these private IP addresses. Your best bet is to resolve them locally
> with /etc/hosts and move on.

 I'll try that. Here is something else.... I send mail using mail -v and it
works. It seems this problem only happens when you POP3 through the RAQ. I'm
POPing behind the firewall. Now that is weird........