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From: mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is it a sendmail.cf or named problem?
Date: 29 Mar 1997 12:38:40 -0700
Organization: Dimensional Communications
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    [cc to author]
Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> writes:

>I have a few domains that are working perfectly. I can access their home
>pages on their web servers, and send e-mail to those domains.
>
>And I have a few that generate a message "mail loops back to myself"
>when I try to send e-mail to myself at that domain.

Answered in the Sendmail FAQ, Question 4.5:

    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq/

Hope this helps.
-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.dimensional.com/~mfuhr/