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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 21:07:07 +0100
From: Stefan Petri <petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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In-reply-to: Justin Seger's message of Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:43:14 -0500 <199512031643.LAA09176@iii1.iii.net>
Subject: re: Mail problems
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Hi!

the DNS config is (almost) irrelevant for your problem. To avoid the
``mail loops back to myself'' error, you need to teach your sendmail
all the names it should recognize itself by:

> Cwlocalhost
> # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
> Fw/etc/sendmail.cw

(Better: put that into the m4 configuration master file:
> # take our own host aliases from /etc/sendmail.cw, so that we do not
> # need
> # to put host-specific stuff into the sendmail.cf
> FEATURE(use_cw_file)
)

							Stefan