From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 10:34:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5750816A4CE for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 10:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from student.cs.uwaterloo.ca (student.cs.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.152.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA04C43D53 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 10:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from omnafees@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca) Received: (from omnafees@localhost) by student.cs.uwaterloo.ca (8.11.7/8.11.7) id i4KHXv813408; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:33:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:33:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Omar M. Nafees" To: Randy Rowe In-Reply-To: <1085070347.2874.11.camel@work.rerowe.com> Message-ID: References: <1085070347.2874.11.camel@work.rerowe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:34:08 -0000 This worked. Thanks for all your help. Omar Omar M. Nafees ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructional Support Coordinator (CS230, CS234, CS240, SE240, CS251, CS350) School of Computer Science University of Waterloo Office: DC3120 Ph: (519) 888 4567 x2859 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP public key is available at: http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~omnafees/pgp_public_key.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----- > > > > (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@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 > > To: Charlie ROOT > > Subject: test > > > > test > > > > > > ************************************************************** > > > > Any ideas as to what the 'local configuration error' could be? Where > > should I be looking? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Omar > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > 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. >