Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:47:29 -0800 (PST) From: -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sendmail: mail loops back to myself Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110124435.4499v-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110143700.27761B-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: Hi Jonathan, > On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Doug White wrote: > > > 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'. > > your machine's sendmail does not recognize its own name ;) take > a look at the Cw macro in /etc/sendmail.cf. you will need to add all > the names that your machine is known by. freefall's sendmail know's > itself by many names, so many that they are listed in a file rather than > in /etc/sendmail, consequently we use Fw instead of Cw. > > 2 ways to do this: > > 1. > > in /etc/sendmail.cf > Cwlocalhost freefall.freebsd.org freefall.cdrom.com <all the rest> > > > 2. > > in /etc/sendmail.cf > > Cwlocalhost > Fw-o /etc/sendmail.cw > > freefall jmb[104] more /etc/sendmail.cw > localhost > freebsd.org > freefall.freebsd.org > freefall.cdrom.com > sup.freebsd.org > www.freebsd.org > freebsd.com > > > then kill sendmail and restart it. check for sendmail options in > /etc/sysconfig (-bd -q30m usually). Speaking of which, we are having a problem with a address on our majordomo runned mailing lists, like for some reason a digest goes out on 1/9/96 at 00:06 -800 PST so it bounces back to the list but it looks like it was the original digest headers since the From: and To: line didn't change. The problem is that even after removing the person(s) with the bouncing problem, it seems their system is resending the same bounce over and over to the lists, is there a way to completely filter out any messages to majordomo from that machine? Thanks for any advice. Cheers, -Vince- vince@COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Board of Advisors Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free! Linda Wong/Vivian Chow/Hacken Lee/Danny Chan/Priscilla Chan Fan Club Mailing Lists Admin
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