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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.inc.net!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!nmia!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Configuring Sendmail Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 12:13:00 -0600 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 40 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960623121112.26461B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Lai L F <scilailf@leonis.nus.sg> In-Reply-To: <4q9hu8$fes@nuscc.nus.sg> Your sendmail needs a "Cw" line so it knows it should accept email sent to that domain. Example: Cwtest.com Right under the Cwlocalhost then -HUP sendmail. On 19 Jun 1996, Lai L F wrote: > [ Article crossposted from comp.mail.sendmail ] > [ Author was Lai L F ] > [ Posted on 19 Jun 1996 18:43:43 GMT ] > > After configuring my DNS service, below is basically what I have in my > named.hosts file: > > @ IN SOA nuts.test.com. root.nuts.test.com. ( > ... ) > IN NS nuts.test.com. > IN NS morenuts.test.com. > IN MX 10 nuts.test.com. > > localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 > nuts IN A 123.45.6.7 > loghost IN CNAME 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? - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com