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From: frankm@solaris.cna.tek.com (Frank 'Scruffy' Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail Looping
Date: 8 Oct 1996 21:13:40 -0700
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Redmond, OR, USA
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Message-ID: <53f8pk$317@solaris.cna.tek.com>
References: <jbyers-0710961253080001@smokyshare-q630.smoky.ccsd.k12.co.us>
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In article <jbyers-0710961253080001@smokyshare-q630.smoky.ccsd.k12.co.us>,
John Byers <jbyers@stega.smoky.org> wrote:
>I have been receiving this message from my bsd box
>
>>Oct  7 02:01:47 mall sendmail[10990]: CAA10982: SYSERR(root):
>>mall.smoky.ccsd.k12.co.us config error : mail loops back to myself
>
>If anyone can tell me how I can fix this please tell me.  Thank you


Put your system aliases ... ie, what other names am I knows as ... in 
your cw file (if you are utilizing the use_cw_file macro).  Also, the Cw
argument does the same thing.

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