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Date:      Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Peter Nguyen <nguyept@saratoga.compassnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with sending mail to a host
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802231040.535S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960801105327.6119A-100000@saratoga.compassnet.com>

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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Peter Nguyen wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD machine that I seems I can not send an email to it.
> The full name of it is saigon.mycompany.com .  I set the DNS so that I
> can telnet and ftp to mycompany.com (mycompany.com is an alias for
> saigon.mycompany.com).  Here is what I get from my remote machine
> 
> 553 saigon.mycompany.com config error: mail loops back to myself

Aah, this little annoyance.  :)  

Edit  /etc/sendmail.cf.  Find the line that starts with Cw, and add all of
the machine's fully-qualified hostnames to it.

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




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