[4534] in linux-net channel archive
Re: sendmail or networking problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon H. Soden)
Wed Sep 25 18:45:21 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:11:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Vernon H. Soden" <vsoden@umich.edu>
To: Michael Pagano <mnpagano@mtepel.student.harvard.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-config@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960924173650.1145A-100000@jazz.student.harvard.edu>
I've been bitten by this one myself. The sendmail.cf file needs a line
like:
Cw jazz.student.harvard.edu
to tell it that it can accept mail for that address.
Vern Soden <vsoden@umich.edu>
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Michael Pagano wrote:
> well, here goes
>
> whenever anyone tries to send mail to my friend's linux box at harvard,
> the mail is returned with the message that follows at the end...
>
> his computer is hooked up to the harvard student network and is aliased to
> jazz.student.harvard.edu (the original address is
> mtepel.student.harvard.edu) through the harvard DNS
> it is the aliasing that seems to be causing the problems
> the sendmail is original; no modifications have been made to anything in
> sendmail.
>
> tia,
> mike
>
> The original message was received at Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:56:22 -0400
> from mnpagano@spec.specdata.com [205.167.92.3]
>
> ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
> <mtepel@mtepel.student.harvard.edu> (unrecoverable error)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 jazz.student.harvard.edu config error: mail loops back to myself
> 554 <mtepel@mtepel.student.harvard.edu>... Local configuration error
>
> ----- Original message follows -----
>
> [ Part 2: "Included Message" ]
>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:56:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mike <mnpagano@spec.specdata.com>
> To: mtepel@mtepel.student.harvard.edu
> Subject: mail
>
> hey matt!
>
>
>
