From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 10:49:06 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA16108 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 10:49:06 -0800 Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA16028 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 10:48:46 -0800 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA27741; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:45:58 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199512031845.UAA27741@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Mail problems To: shorty@iii.net (Justin Seger) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:45:58 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512031643.LAA09176@iii1.iii.net> from "Justin Seger" at Dec 3, 95 11:43:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 684 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > My machine has two ip addresses, 199.232.44.242 (SLIP), and 199.232.47.49 (an > ethernet board) > 199.232.47.49 is known as scds1.scds.com, scds.com, as well as other things. If > i go into an account on my system and send mail to root, or root@scds1.scds.com, > it works fine. If I send mail to root@scds.com I get the following message on > my console: > > HAA01401: SYSERR(root): scds1 config error: mail loops back to myself > You should tell sendmail that it must receive mail for the other names as well. In /etc/sendmail.cf look for the line "Cwlocalhost" and add some more as needed. eg. Cwlocalhost Cwscds.com Cw....... John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za