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To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: sendmail: mail loops back to myself 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:06:51 PST."
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 11:04:43 -0800
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Doug White wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.960110100351.1144A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>:
> Hello!
> 
> I keep getting messages back from MAILER_DAEMON about messages that loop 
> back to myself.
 
> How do I fix these?
 
> Someone else posted and I didn't get a response.
 
> My machine's name is `riley-net170-164' wiht a CNAME to `gdi'.

Add `gdi' to the line that starts ``Cwlocalhost'' so that it reads:

Cwlocalhost gdi.uoregon.edu

in /etc/sendmail.cf

Yours

Gary