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From: itsymbal@scws35.harvard.edu (Ilya Tsymbal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: [Q] sendmail
Date: 3 Jul 1995 19:04:11 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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I have a machine that has more than one name mapped to it.

When I send mail to an address at that machine, it gives an error:
Local configuration error: Mail loops back to myself.

Evidently, sendmail does not realize that it is supposed to accept the 
mail message addressed to this name, and not forward it.

I was told to put all names for this machine in /etc/sendmail.cw file, 
but that didn't fix the problem. Is that the proper name of that file? Is 
it the proper location? What is the correct format of that file?
How do I tell sendmail to look at it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I will bee looking in this newsgroup for responces, but please also CC 
your reply to me. 

Thanks,

Ilya
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Ilya Tsymbal '96                                      Harvard U, Quincy House.
itsymbal@husc.harvard.edu             http://itsymbal.student.harvard.edu/ilya