Hello, I have been trying to fix my smail program to be able to receive mail from others using my static ip/monolith address. These questions are based on my home machine and I have read over DNS/SMAIL/NETWORK, etc. manpages and HOWTO's. I came accross some messages between George Bonser and Remco from Feb/March list archives and tried some of the tips they came up with. But am still having problem receiving mail. Sending mail is no problem, it is just when I try to receive from anyone using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. I get mail fine from my [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Here's my part of my smail config file. visible_name=samson.ml.org domains=samson.ml.org:dallas.net hostnames=archangel:aux-217-10-129 This was explained in the archives between George and Remco. Here's my hosts file: 209.217.10.129 samson.ml.org aux-217-10-129.dallas.net Again like the archives mentioned. Now this is what I see on my syslog when mail is incoming: Apr 8 11:21:49 archangel in.smtpd[1025]: connect from mailgw1a.lmco.com Apr 8 11:21:52 archangel in.smtpd[1027]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:53 archangel in.smtpd[1030]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:54 archangel in.smtpd[1033]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:54 archangel in.smtpd[1036]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:55 archangel in.smtpd[1039]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:55 archangel in.smtpd[1042]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:56 archangel in.smtpd[1045]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:56 archangel in.smtpd[1048]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:57 archangel in.smtpd[1051]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:58 archangel in.smtpd[1054]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:58 archangel in.smtpd[1057]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:59 archangel in.smtpd[1060]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:21:59 archangel in.smtpd[1063]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:22:00 archangel in.smtpd[1066]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:22:01 archangel in.smtpd[1069]: connect from samson.ml.org Apr 8 11:22:02 archangel in.smtpd[1072]: connect from samson.ml.org Then when I get the Bounced mail back I see: |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... loop detection: maximum hop count exceeded |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| Received: from archangel ([209.217.10.129]) by archangel with esmtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0yMxEc-0003AGC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:57:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel ([209.217.10.129]) by archangel with esmtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0yMxEb-000391C (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:57:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel ([209.217.10.129]) by archangel with esmtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0yMxEb-0003ANC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:57:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel ([209.217.10.129]) by archangel with esmtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0yMxEa-000390C (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:57:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel ([209.217.10.129]) by archangel with esmtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0yMxEa-0003AKC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:57:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel ([209.217.10.129]) by archangel with esmtp (ident root using rfc1413) id m0yMxEa-0003AGC etc. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone make heads or tail of this? Please help! Thanks ________________________________ Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]