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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Dale Benzer <ipc1@tribeca.ios.com>
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Subject: Re: mail "loop back to myself"
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On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Dale Benzer wrote:

> What are we doing wrong here???!!!  Mail from the net is received but 
> returned by our server to the sender with this loops back on myself message.

Add your system's name to /etc/sendmail.cf under the Cw line.

This is mine:  (the machine's real DNS name is riley-, it's CNAMEd to gdi):

Cwlocalhost gdi.uoregon.edu riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu

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