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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!bspengle From: bspengle@nyx.cs.du.edu (Brett Spengler) Subject: mail.local (strange problem!) Message-ID: <1993Jul29.143304.1238@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci. Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 14:33:04 GMT Lines: 29 I have a weird mail problem I would much appreciate some advice on. I am running Netbsd 0.8, connected to the Internet. When I receive mail the console repeatedly comes up with: date time host.name mail.local: localhost: undefined error: 0 where date is current date, time is current time, and host name is my host. I also get this message recorded in the maillog file. Anyway, I was originally having trouble with getting Pine for NetBSD to send mail to other users on the local machine with the full domain name tacked onto the user name -- which is what pine does. So I looked on my Ultrix system and decided to try adding the DA$w macro to sendmail.cf. This seemed to fix the problem of being able to send mail locally with full domain attached. However, perhaps this is causing the other probem? I don't know. Some mail guru. Please help. I do seem to be sending and receiving mail fine, though I am concerned with this error message. I get this error even when no one is on the system -- as mail is coming in from lists which causes the error message to come up. Appreciate any help. Have a nice day.