[4535] in linux-net channel archive
Re: sendmail or networking problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (T.-Y. Tung)
Wed Sep 25 21:55:12 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:26:51 -0400
From: "T.-Y. Tung" <tung@cebaf.gov>
To: Michael Pagano <mnpagano@mtepel.student.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-config@vger.rutgers.edu
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!
>
Ahha,
Finally I found someone is trying to do the same thing and is having
the same problem. I just solved my own two days ago. And I am glad to
share with you all.
First this is really mail configuration problem. Look
at/usr/spool/mail/postmaster all the missing mail is there.
Second, I couldn't find any documentation in the Linux documentation
project. However, I found the answer in my slackware 3.0 distribution.
Specifically, /usr/doc/sendmail/faq if the documentation is installed.
The problem is coused by that the mail daemon does not recoganize
that itself live in your linux box as whatever.whatever and decide to
return it.
There are probably several ways to fix it. The linux box owner need
to edit the /etc/sendmail.cf add a line
Dcw mtepel.student.harvard.edu
under
Dcw localhost
Hope you got the idea.
--
T.-Y Tung
