sendmail problems

[Omar M. Nafees]

This worked. Thanks for all your help.

Omar




Omar M. Nafees

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On Thu, 20 May 2004, Randy Rowe wrote:

> 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.
>