Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:37:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: George Vagner <vagner@spdc.ti.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: too many hops Message-ID: <XFMail.980507113735.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <199805070214.VAA09367@epcot.spdc.ti.com>
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Did not follow the whole thread but maybe i could help anyway. On 07-May-98 George Vagner wrote: > where do i find my "mx records" and what do they do? MX-records are entries in nameserver-config-files, defining some mailexchanger for a domain or a network. If you are running a authoritative nameserver for your own zone or network, add something like " in mx 30 your-mx-at.your.isp" after the soa-record in your zone- and reverse-zone-file. your-mx-at.your.isp should be a mail-hub or mail-relay at your isp. Better read "DNS & BIND" on this stuff. Another way is to let your isp change his nameserver-files if he is authoritative for your domain. "/etc/sendmail.cw" is a file that should contain domain-names you want sendmail to accept mails for. For example you may want to add localhost mutsgo.kf7nn.com customcpu.com into /etc/sendmail.cw Make sure something like "Fw-o /etc/sendmail.cw" is found in your /etc/sendmail.cf file Hope that was useful Malte. > > sendmail.cf is the original one that was installed > i copied the original one back but still get these > errors. > > I need to fix this, my provider just notified me of it. > > > > > At 01:10 PM 5/6/98 -0700, you wrote: >>On Wed, 6 May 1998, George Vagner wrote: >> >>> where do i begin on this one? >>> >>> i am getting too many hops error here. >>> >>> also noticed machine name is kf7nn.kf7nn.com >>> but it is not it should be mutsgo.kf7nn.com >> >>Well, this is what started it all: >> >>550 <vagner@customcpu.com>... User unknown >> >>Most likely your MX records and/or /etc/sendmail.cw are wrong and your >>system thinks it needs to relay mail when it doesn't. >> >>Doug White | University of Oregon >>Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > Laszlo Vagner > Texas Instruments > Email:kf7nn@ti.com > FreeBSD The OS of choice. > http://mutsgo.dyn.ml.org > telnet://mutsgo.dyn.ml.org > Pg. 598-5217 > Wk. 995-4297 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Date: 07-May-98 Time: 11:14:58 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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