sendmail problems
Ingrid Kast Fuller
ingrid at cityscope.net
Thu May 20 09:38:47 PDT 2004
What about the MX records????
Ingrid Kast Fuller
CityScope Net 713-477-6161
http://www.cityscope.net <http://www.cityscope.net>
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Randy Rowe
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 11:26 AM
To: Omar M. Nafees
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sendmail problems
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 09:43, Omar M. Nafees wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An 'mail loop back' error occurs whenever I send mail to myself. Here
> is the Mail Delivery report:
>
>
> The original message was received at Thu, 20 May 2004 10:40:00 -0400
> (EDT) from localhost.uwaterloo.ca [127.0.0.1]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <root at hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
> (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 5.3.5 hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca. config error: mail loops back to me
> (MX problem?)
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error
>
> [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns; hacker.cs
> Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost.uwaterloo.ca
> Arrival-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; root at hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.3.5
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 5.3.5 system config error
> Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> [ Part 3: "Included Message" ]
>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:39:59 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Charlie ROOT <root at hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
> To: Charlie ROOT <root at hacker.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: test
>
> test
>
>
> **************************************************************
>
> Any ideas as to what the 'local configuration error' could be? Where
> should I be looking?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Omar
>
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An even better bet is that the local configuration error is in /etc/hosts. I
just ran across this when I moved a machine from one net to another. Check
your ip address settings for your host.
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