From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 10:25:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424E037B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from enterprise.thenetnow.com (enterprise.thenetnow.com [65.39.193.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A34E43F85 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grant@thenetnow.com) Received: from nn5.ody.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by enterprise.thenetnow.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2DIMWR47457 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:22:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from grant@thenetnow.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Grant Peel Subject: Re: Sendmail Question Reply-To: grant@thenetnow.com Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:23:24 -0500 X-Sender: grant@localhost X-Originating-Host: nn5.ody.ca [216.99.108.5]; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:22:32 GMT X-Mailer: Mailreader.com v2.3.29 (2001-07-20) X-Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705), JavaScript: On Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You are on the right track. Sendmail may have used sendmail.cw which was the predecesor of local- host-names. Check wich file it is looking for by searching through sendmail.cf Then create whatever file it is and add the name of the host that is giving you the dreaded loops-back error. No mail can be recieved for that host on this machine until the name has been added to that file. -Grant =================================================================== Mail Service Provided by The Net Now and Mailreader =================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message