Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:42:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: mail loops back to myself Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110143700.27761B-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110100351.1144A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Doug White wrote: > I keep getting messages back from MAILER_DAEMON about messages that loop > back to myself. > > How do I fix these? > > Someone else posted and I didn't get a response. > > My machine's name is `riley-net170-164' wiht a CNAME to `gdi'. your machine's sendmail does not recognize its own name ;) take a look at the Cw macro in /etc/sendmail.cf. you will need to add all the names that your machine is known by. freefall's sendmail know's itself by many names, so many that they are listed in a file rather than in /etc/sendmail, consequently we use Fw instead of Cw. 2 ways to do this: 1. in /etc/sendmail.cf Cwlocalhost freefall.freebsd.org freefall.cdrom.com <all the rest> 2. in /etc/sendmail.cf Cwlocalhost Fw-o /etc/sendmail.cw freefall jmb[104] more /etc/sendmail.cw localhost freebsd.org freefall.freebsd.org freefall.cdrom.com sup.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org freebsd.com then kill sendmail and restart it. check for sendmail options in /etc/sysconfig (-bd -q30m usually). Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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