Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:24:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: dunn@ferrum.edu (James E. Dunn) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MX record problem Message-ID: <9504252324.AA05177@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199504251600.MAA04363@panther.ferrum.edu> from "James E. Dunn" at Apr 25, 95 12:00:19 pm
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> I'm hoping that somebody could give me some direction with this MX > record error... I'm sure that I had this working, but last week I > started getting mail like this: > > ---CUT HERE--- > From daemon Tue Apr 25 11:55:05 1995 > Received: from localhost (localhost) by panther.ferrum.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9)... > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> > Subject: Returned mail: Local configuration error > Message-Id: <199504251555.LAA04252@panther.ferrum.edu> > To: postmaster > Status: OR > > ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- > dunn@ferrum.edu (unrecoverable error) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 554 MX list for ferrum.edu. points back to panther.ferrum.edu > 554 dunn@ferrum.edu... Local configuration error > ---CUT HERE--- Hi Jim, This probably is not an "MX record error" per se, but rather a mail configuration problem. panther.ferrum.edu does not recognize mail being sent to "ferrum.edu" as belonging to itself, and attempts to send it via the network - only to discover that the most preferential route is back to itself! I typically use the sendmail.cw feature to set a list of hostname aliases within /etc/sendmail.cw that I wish to be known as. There are other ways to do it, but I'm not convinced any are as easy and/or portable. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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