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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Configuring Sendmail Date: 20 Jun 1996 03:30:17 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4qagk9$1ia@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4q9hu8$fes@nuscc.nus.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lai L F (scilailf@leonis.nus.sg) wrote: : [ Article crossposted from comp.mail.sendmail ] : [ Author was Lai L F ] : [ Posted on 19 Jun 1996 18:43:43 GMT ] : After configuring my DNS service, below is basically what I have in my : named.hosts file: : @ IN SOA nuts.test.com. root.nuts.test.com. ( : ... ) : IN NS nuts.test.com. : IN NS morenuts.test.com. : IN MX 10 nuts.test.com. : localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 : nuts IN A 123.45.6.7 : loghost IN CNAME nuts.test.com. : When I tried to sendmail to john@test.com, sendmail will give me an error : of : mail loops back to myself?! Edit your /etc/sendmail.cf: Cw test.com morenuts.test.com (and all other names ) It should work. Another decision: make CNAME test.com , and other names - aliases. IgoR aka StR@komkon.org