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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: John Clark <jrclark@felix.iupui.edu>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, John Clark wrote:

> I am trying to setup sendmail, but got these errors when I tried to send mail:
> 
> 553 net1.coolnet.net config error: mail loops back to myself
> 554 <jrclark@coolnet.net>... Local configuration error

Your machine has multiple names.  Modify the Cw line in /etc/sendmail.cf 
to include all of your machines' names:

Cwlocalhost name.some.where name .....

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major