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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:57:14 -0400
From:      Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>
To:        Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail cannot receive mail
Message-ID:  <3974461A.6171ACA5@miltonstreet.com>
References:  <3973C53A.89C340A0@miltonstreet.com> <20000717224746.A71983@earthlink.net>

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Eric Ogren wrote:

> Try running
>
> # echo maineville.net >> /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
>
> and then kill -HUP sendmail. That should fix it.
>
> If you're interested, the problem is that sendmail doesn't
> realize that you own both maineville.net and whatever the domainname
> of your machine is. Putting an entry in the sendmail.cw file will
> tell sendmail to accept mail for that domain.

So you are telling me that that simply "maineville.net" should be on the very
last line of the sendmail.cf without anything in front of  "maineville.net"?
Strange.  Do you have any clue where this it talked about in the O'Reilly
Sendmail book?

Sam



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