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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:50:39 +0200
To: Swee-Chuan Khoo <sckhoo@asiapac.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Michael Beckmann <beckmann@nacamar.net>
Subject: Re: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
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At 17:42 25.07.97 +0800, Swee-Chuan Khoo wrote:
>
>hi,
>
>	a.com is a virtual domain my server is serving. in the
>dns, MX for a.com is pointing at luke. and in /etc/sendmail.cw
>in luke ( sendmail 8.8.6 ), a.com is there. any idea?
>
>
>Jul 25 17:29:27 luke sendmail[814]: RAA00812: SYSERR(root):
>luke.a.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

/etc/sendmail.cw is not an external database for sendmail. It will only be
read at a restart of sendmail. So you may have to kill -HUP sendmail to
make the change to sendmail.cw effective.

sendmail configurations that are kept in external databases, like aliases,
virtusertable, mailertable etc. are made effective by using the proper
makemap command, resp. newaliases. These changes do not require a
subsequent restart of sendmail.

Michael