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From: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com (Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ifconfig alias and Sendmail
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 14:07:33 GMT
Organization: Vault Information Services
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tomg@fourthgen.fourthgen.com (Tom Greenwalt) wrote:

>I'm trying to setup multiple domains on a single machine and 
>thanks to FreeBSD homepage, I've found several examples for doing
>that.  However, when I try to send test mail to a user on the new
>domain, I get an error back from sendmail:

>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>553 fourthgen.com config error: mail loops back to myself
>554 tomg@trancer.com... Local configuration error

>Is there something I'm supposed to change in sendmail.cf to make
>this work?
>Thanks.


If your current domain name is domain1.com and you want to add
domain2.com then you should already have a line that looks like

Cwdomain1.com

in your /etc/sendmail.cf file.  Add another one right under it that
looks like

Cwdomain2.com

That should solve your problem.

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