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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!salliemae!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.cccd.edu!usenet From: mpeer@rustler.gwc.cccd.edu (Michael Peer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] sendmail Date: 9 Jul 1995 01:13:49 GMT Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 56 Message-ID: <3tnagd$8i@spock.dis.cccd.edu> References: <3t9evb$l06@decaxp.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mp01.csc.gwc.cccd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.4 In article <3t9evb$l06@decaxp.harvard.edu>, itsymbal@scws35.harvard.edu says... > >I have a machine that has more than one name mapped to it. > >When I send mail to an address at that machine, it gives an error: >Local configuration error: Mail loops back to myself. > >Evidently, sendmail does not realize that it is supposed to accept the >mail message addressed to this name, and not forward it. > >I was told to put all names for this machine in /etc/sendmail.cw file, >but that didn't fix the problem. Is that the proper name of that file? Is >it the proper location? What is the correct format of that file? >How do I tell sendmail to look at it? > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >I will bee looking in this newsgroup for responces, but please also CC >your reply to me. > >Thanks, > >Ilya >-- > >Ilya Tsymbal '96 Harvard U, Quincy House. >itsymbal@husc.harvard.edu http://itsymbal.student.harvard.edu/ilya > I had the same problem, I solved by... 1. I had to have my provider change DNS so that an MX record pointed to the exact host I wanted, and that there was a A record to match: domain.edu MX 10 host.domain.edu and an address domain.edu A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx It took awhile for the network provider to get it right, also for some reason. Then I had to modify my sendmail.cf file in the /etc directory normally the Cw record reads: Cwlocalhost it now reads: Cwlocalhost domain.edu and it all worked! I verified it by sending mail to mpeer@domain.edu. My installation is FreeBSD 2.0 January 1995, network only. any questions, or whatever just e-mail: Michael Peer mpeer@cccd.edu