From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 31 05:55:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA23424 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA23417 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id FAA06054 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA14971 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:26:53 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa09746; 31 Jan 97 8:55 EST Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:55:15 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Allen Hyer cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple sendmail question In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970130184139.00b3b078@wtrt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is your badhost the same box? I use mmdf mostly, but I believe you can direct bad addresses to a baduser box (which is handy of you have some users on 1 box, and some on another) - if that points back to the same box it would get confused. On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Allen Hyer wrote: > Hello, > > Email is working ok on my server. I have one question/problem. When > someone sends mail to a nonexistant address, I get the famous "config > error: mail loops back to me" error message. Mail to/from valid addresses > work fine. Is this normal? Or, is there something in the config file that > needs tweaking? > > Thanks, > > > Allen Hyer > System Administrator > West Texas Rural Telephone >