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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network configuration
Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:00:48 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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Message-ID: <4us84g$fd2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
References: <4ur6s6$8fj@tkhut.sojourn.com>
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 [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]

In article <4ur6s6$8fj@tkhut.sojourn.com>,
Skeeter Hartwig <jihad@sojourn.com> wrote:
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 rogue.coe.ohio-state.edu config error: mail loops back to myself
> 554 jihad@mayhem.imaginary.com... Local configuration error
> 
> If I use the official name of the machine, mail works fine.  However, I'd
> like to be able to use the alias for mail as well.  Do I need to add the
> alias mayhem.imaginary.com to one of the config files on the machine?

The answer is in the FAQ. 

Put FEATURE(use_cw_file) in your .mc file and put

mayhem.imaginary.com

in /etc/sendmail.cw

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