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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Peter Nguyen <nguyept@saratoga.compassnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with sending mail to a host
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Peter Nguyen wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD machine that I seems I can not send an email to it.
> The full name of it is saigon.mycompany.com .  I set the DNS so that I
> can telnet and ftp to mycompany.com (mycompany.com is an alias for
> saigon.mycompany.com).  Here is what I get from my remote machine
> 
> 553 saigon.mycompany.com config error: mail loops back to myself

Aah, this little annoyance.  :)  

Edit  /etc/sendmail.cf.  Find the line that starts with Cw, and add all of
the machine's fully-qualified hostnames to it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major