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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Howard Lew wrote:

> mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> Local configuration error

you need to edit /etc/sendmail.cf and add all your hostnames to the Cw
line.  Most likely, your machine has two names and this is confusing
sendmail.  

Try adding 'sequence' and 'localhost' to the list.

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