[647] in RedHat Linux List
The classic "mail loops back" problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Powell)
Wed Oct 23 20:15:14 1996
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:10:40 -0400
From: Chris Powell <helios@brickandivy.com>
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I'm attempting to address the very popular "mail loops back to me" problem
with sendmail, but I'm getting nowhere. I can send out just fine, of
course, but am unsuccessful at mailing from local machine to local machine.
There are lots of solutions on Deja News, but none seem to help me. Can
anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?
Here's some background info.
* 2 machines, pentagram and hexagram. Pentagram is the internet gateway and
nameserver on a permanent PPP connection.
* When sending mail on hexagram to "helios@pentagram" I get the standard
"mail loops back to me" error message.
* pentagram's sendmail.cw:
hexagram.brickandivy.com
* pentagram's appropriate parts of sendmail.cf:
Cwlocalhost
Cwbrickandivy.com
Cwpentagram.brickandivy.com
Cwpentagram
DH
DM
* hexagram's sendmail.cw is empty
* hexagram's sendmail.cf parts:
Cwlocalhost
Cwbrickandivy.com
Cwhexagram.brickandivy.com
Cwhexagram
DS
DR
DHbrickandivy.com
DMbrickandivy.com
* and finally, pentagram's nameserver data:
pentagram A 207.2.232.17
MX 10 pentagram
HINFO "Pentium" "UNIX"
hexagram A 207.2.232.18
MX 10 pentagram
HINFO "Pentium Pro" "UNIX"
Whew! Anyway, I'm pretty certain there's a straightforward way to solve
this, but I can't seem to find it. (BTW, I did RTFM on page 56, but that
didn't help.)
Regards,
Chris Powell
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