From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 05:45:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA27888 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 05:45:56 -0700 Received: from wptx02.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wptx02.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA27882 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 05:45:29 -0700 Received: (from marc@localhost) by wptx02.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (8.7.1/8.6.10) id NAA00490; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:44:35 +0100 (MEZ) From: Marc Binderberger Message-Id: <199510131244.NAA00490@wptx02.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Subject: Re: MX addresses To: andrew@andrew.tased.edu.au (Andrew) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:44:35 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: marc@Physik.Uni-Wuerzburg.DE (Marc Binderberger) In-Reply-To: from "Andrew" at Oct 13, 95 04:44:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Fri Oct 13 10:37:59 1995 > Return-Path: > Received: from wptx01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wptx01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.1]) by wptx02.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (8.7.1/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA00280 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:37:54 +0100 (MEZ) > Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [192.216.222.4]) by wptx01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA09867 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:22:29 +0100 > Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) > by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA17902 > ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:41:58 -0700 > Received: (from root@localhost) > by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA17889 > for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:41:57 -0700 > Received: from flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au (flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au [147.41.41.100]) > by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA17880 > for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:41:49 -0700 > Received: (from andrew@localhost) by flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA00211; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 16:44:24 GMT > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 16:44:22 +0000 () > From: Andrew > X-Sender: andrew@flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: MX addresses > Message-ID: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org > Precedence: bulk > > Hi, Hello, Andrew wrote about his trouble with MX records: > The real reason I am writing is to ask about MX addresses. I have named > running with an MX address for hobart.tased.edu.au pointing at > flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au. When mail is sent from a PC using flopsy as > a SMTP server a message comes up on the monitor of the unix - > syserr(root) MX list for hobart.tased.edu.au points back to > flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au Hope, I understand the problem. Two ways out of the trouble: i) Tell sendmail, that he is not just flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au but also hobart.tased.edu.au by using a line "Cwhobart.tased.edu.au" in your /etc/sendmail.cf ii) Use sendmail 8.7.1 . There is a mailer flag to supress this loop detection (I think it was "k" or "K"...) Did you post your question to comp.mail.sendmail ? There the .cf hackers are at home. ;-) Regards, Marc. -- Marc Binderberger Institut fuer Theoretische Physik I marc@Physik.Uni-Wuerzburg.DE Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany sciene is mistake up to date