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#! rnews 2788 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.PBI.net!scooter.general.net!news From: Marc Menowitz <marcmen@invest2.invest.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.hpux,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Q: sendmail error: "loopsback to me" Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 21:13:51 -0700 Organization: Apartment Rental Assistance Lines: 52 Message-ID: <31B5097F.446B@invest2.invest.com> References: <NEWTNews.833735180.5107.masinter@bart.networkss.com> <1996Jun3.045351.26860@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <mattp.833896360@zap.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm-isdn-98.general.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01b2 (X11; I; SCO_SV 3.2 i386) To: Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@zap.io.org> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:18665 comp.unix.osf.osf1:14027 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3724 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20687 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3915 comp.unix.aix:77982 Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote: > > stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) writes: > > >include a statement like: Fw/etc/sendmail.cw > >in your sendmail.cf. Edit (create) the file sendmail.cw and include > >all machine/domain-names you like to receive mail for. > >e.g.: > >your-domain > >machine.at.other.domain > > I've been having a similar problem .. the message my local sendmail is > returning is this: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 553 conundrum.com config error: mail loops back to myself > 554 <mattp@conundrum.com>... Local configuration error > > I tried adding Fw/etc/sendmail.cw to my sendmail.cf file, then creating a > sendmail.cw file that looks like this: > > -- > ; domains to receive mail for > ; > > conundrum.com > -- > > That doesn't work either .. same error. Should the file look like this > instead: ? > > -- > ; domains to receive mail for > ; > conundrum.com. 86400 MX 0 conundrum.com. > conundrum.com. 86400 MX 10 mail.io.org. > -- > > Someone suggested that with slightly different instructions (which didn't work > either). > > Any help is appreciated.. > Matt > -- > EMail: mattp@io.org (MP1229) | "Sometime they will > Home Page: http://www.io.org/~mattp | give a war and > Children's International Summer Villages | nobody will come." > Home Page: http://www.io.org/~mattp/CISV | - Carl Sandburg are you running to internet provider. It sounds like your nameserver is messed up