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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mailer problems
Date: 31 Aug 1996 17:47:24 GMT
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Jesse Edelman <jesse@gracon.com> wrote:

> I am tring to setup mail at my house and I am having problems with mail
> going to <user>@<domain.name>. When I send mail addresed like that it
> just comes back to the machine I sent it from with a "...local
> configuration error...DNS error". I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 box running as
> the primary DNS server and a Linux 2.0.0 running as the secondary DNS
> server. Both are running sendmail, which I don't think should matter,
> and I have put an MX record in the DNS tables to point to the machine I
> want to receieve all my mail. 

Cw domain.name

in your machine.mc file (or in your sendmail.cf, if you don't use
m4 configuration).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)