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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
cc: xiyuan qian <xiyuan@npc.haplink.co.cn>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: change the domain name? 
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Peter Olsson wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> >but the mail server can not work. I mean, I can NOT send mail to 
> >user@mailhost.haplink.com.cn, always get the "mail loop back to myself"
> error.
> >I only changed the DNS server configuration. How can I configure the sendmail
> >to let it handle the messages to haplink.co.cn and haplink.com.cn?
> 
> You must have this new domain in either sendmail.cf or sendmail.cw.
> Your old domain should be in there somewhere, use that as example.

No, the old domain is not necessarily there, as sendmail can often 
determine the correct name.  However, you should change the hostname 
setting in /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/sysconfig) to the new name and add the 
old name to /etc/sendmail.cw or in /etc/sendmail.cf put a line

Cw haplink.co.cn

Danny