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From: kieber@jerry.xoo.sax.de (Ulf Kieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring Sendmail
Date: 21 Jun 1996 20:37:57 +0200
Organization: SaxNet e. V., Dresden, Germany
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In article <4q9hu8$fes@nuscc.nus.sg> scilailf@leonis.nus.sg (Lai L F) writes:
>named.hosts file:
>
>@ IN SOA nuts.test.com. root.nuts.test.com. (
> ... )
> IN MX 10 nuts.test.com.
>When I tried to sendmail to john@test.com, sendmail will give me an error
>of : mail loops back to myself?!
>
>Anyway I am using FreeBSD 2.1 and the sendmail.cf that come with it...and
>there is no error when I tried sending mail to john@nuts or
>john@nuts.test.com..........So can anyone enlighten me on the error?
What you are trying to do is called host name hiding (so you can send
mail to <user@dom.ain> instead of <user@host.dom.ain>). For this to
work you need to tell sendmail on the very host the domain MX is set
to, that it is supposed to accept mail no only for itself, but for the
domain, too.
On nuts.test.com put the following line into sendmail.cf
Cwtest.com
then restart sendmail.
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Ulf Kieber
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