From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 09:16:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22875 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saratoga.compassnet.com (nguyept@saratoga.compassnet.com [198.66.160.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA22870 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nguyept@localhost) by saratoga.compassnet.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA06577; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 11:12:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 11:12:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter Nguyen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with sending mail to a host Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a FreeBSD machine that I seems I can not send an email to it. The full name of it is saigon.mycompany.com . I set the DNS so that I can telnet and ftp to mycompany.com (mycompany.com is an alias for saigon.mycompany.com). Here is what I get from my remote machine >From Mailer-Daemon@nyx.net Thu Aug 1 10:24 CDT 1996 Received: from mordor.cs.du.edu (mordor.cs.du.edu [130.253.192.87]) by saratoga.compassnet.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05377 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:24:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nyx.net (nyx10.nyx.net) by mordor.cs.du.edu with SMTP id AA28069 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:10:44 -0600 Received: from saigon.mycompany.com ([206.139.152.105]) by nyx.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14073; Thu, 1 Aug 96 09:27:24 MDT Received: from localhost (localhost) by saigon.mycompany.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with internal id KAA01215; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:30:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:30:44 -0500 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Local configuration error Message-Id: <199608011530.KAA01215@saigon.mycompany.com> To: To: postmaster@saigon.mycompany.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="KAA01215.838913444/saigon.mycompany.com" Content-Length: 1391 X-Status: Status: OR This is a MIME-encapsulated message --KAA01215.838913444/saigon.mycompany.com The original message was received at Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:30:26 -0500 from mordor.cs.du.edu [130.253.192.87] ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- (unrecoverable error) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 553 saigon.mycompany.com config error: mail loops back to myself 554 ... Local configuration error ----- Original message follows ----- --KAA01215.838913444/saigon.mycompany.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: pnguyen@nyx.net Received: from mordor.cs.du.edu (mordor.cs.du.edu [130.253.192.87]) by saigon.mycompany.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA01213 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:30:26 -0500 Received: from nyx.net (nyx.nyx.net) by mordor.cs.du.edu with SMTP id AA28041 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:09:51 -0600 Received: by nyx.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20280; Thu, 1 Aug 96 09:26:53 MDT From: pnguyen@nyx.net (Kawabunga Nguyen) Message-Id: <9608011526.AA20280@nyx.net> Subject: to mycompany.com To: nguyepta@mycompany.com Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:26:49 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 0 --KAA01215.838913444/saigon.mycompany.com--