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From: sn@penelope.frmug.fr.net (Sylvain Nierveze)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Popper mail server.
Date: 31 May 1996 23:11:01 +0200
Organization: Penelope Corp.
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Russell Mills (russell.mills@astrac.com) wrote:
: Hi everyone,

: I am running FreeBSD V2.1 with the popper mail server. Now everything
: works fine, I can send mail and receive mail from the real world. 
: The trouble is that when mail is received it goes straight to the 
: postmaster and not to the users on the system. How can I sort this??

: The error message I get is :-

: mail loops back to myself [876]

it seems to be a message from sendmail.. not popper. Your configuration
file for sendmail (sendmail.cf) may be wrong in some way, or it may
indicate a problem in DNS and sendmail.cw file (sorry I don't have 
my cricket and bat books near me :-) )