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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 1996 09:23:24 -0600
From:      Mike Eggleston <mikee@green.eggtech.com>
To:        sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: named/sendmail problem: "MX points back..."
Message-ID:  <199603101523.JAA25137@green.eggtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <9603100502.D4176Jj@edmbbs.iceonline.com> (sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com)

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>>>>> "sreid" == sreid  <sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com> writes:

> Argh! I am going INSANE!!!! %-(

RD> You must restart sendmail.  A HUP isn't good enough.  Restarting
RD> sendmail will generate much more consistent results.

> Thanks for the advice, I wasn't sure about the HUP. I've been
> killing and restarting it every time today... But, to no avail.

> I think either the Cw option is not the option to use, or sendmail
> is ignoring the /etc/sendmail.cf file. None of the changes I make
> seem to have any effect, even if I kill and restart sendmail. :(

> Maybe there's some undocumented ritual sacrifice I should be
> using???

I had this same problem and the only way I could fix it was to make
sure that I had not defined the thing in /etc/sendmail.cf that says
what host to masquerade as.  When I removed the masquerade definition
from sendmail.cf and had the mx records set right, everything else
worked right.

Mike



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