Whenever I attempt to send a bad esmtp email and it fails (as expected), I recieve the 
following error:

Nov  5 20:06:46 helen courieresmtp: id=0002D02D.418C23A6.00000526,from=<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>,addr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: configuration error: mail loops back to myself 
(MX problem)

The loop error only appears when the original delivery is a failure. If it's 
successful, everything works fine.

Can anyone explain why this is happening?
Thanks, 
-Mike


my /etc/courier/locals contains:
localhost
softrains.com
.softrains.com


my /etc/courier/esmtpacceptmailfor.dir/domains contains:
localhost
softrains.com
.softrains.com


My /etc/courier/aliases/system contains:
root: postmaster
mailer-daemon: postmaster
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
uucp: postmaster
postmaster: local-user


Also, my domain and hostname are:
# hostname
helen
# dnsdomainname
softrains.com


I have done `makeacceptmailfor` and `makealiases` several times.





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