From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 21:31:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B3E37B422 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip177.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.177]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00119; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e7P4VA400531; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:31:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eogren) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:31:09 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: "Ryugen C. Fisher" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Returned mail: Local configuration error Message-ID: <20000825003109.A322@earthlink.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000824202846.00ac5910@mail.palaver.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000824202846.00ac5910@mail.palaver.org>; from Ryugen@palaver.org on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:29:15PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [CCing the list again in case someone else runs into this] From the sendmail FAQ: I'm getting these error messages: 553 MX list for domain.net points back to relay.domain.net 554 ... Local configuration error How can I solve this problem? You have asked mail to a domain (e.g., domain.net) to be forwarded to a specific host (in this case, relay.domain.net) by using an MX record, but the relay machine doesn't recognize itself as domain.net. Add domain.net to /etc/mail/local-host-names [known as /etc/sendmail.cw prior to version 8.10] (if you are using FEATURE(`use_cw_file')) or add "Cw domain.net" to your configuration file. So, basically mortgage.gorman-gorman.com doesn't know it's supposed to be accepting mail for gorman-gorman.com. Add gorman-gorman.com to the /etc/mail/sendmail.cw file, kill -HUP sendmail, and try again. Eric On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:29:15PM -0500, Ryugen C. Fisher wrote: > I have managed to reduce the errors to this > > >Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:31:50 -0500 (CDT) > >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > >To: postmaster@mortgage.gorman-gorman.com > >To: > >Subject: Returned mail: Local configuration error > >Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > >554 MX list for gorman-gorman.com. points back to mortgage.gorman-gorman.com > >554 ... Local configuration error > >Reporting-MTA: dns; mortgage.gorman-gorman.com > >Received-From-MTA: DNS; mail5.primary.net > >Arrival-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:31:49 -0500 (CDT) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message