Today, Ray Bowles gleaned this insight:
> when ever I receive a message(e-mail) on my system it looks like this.
> Any ideas. Thanks
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> 553 devit.net. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Local configuration error
This is usually caused by your mail server not thinking that it should be
accepting mail for your domain... by default it will only accept mail for
its own host name, i.e. mail.devit.net (or whatever your real host name
is).
The fix is generally to tell sendmail that it should accept mail for your
entire domain, by putting an entry in sendmail.cw (which is in /etc on
RedHat, and /etc/mail on some other distributions).
My /etc/sendmail.cw looks like this:
# sendmail.cw - include all aliases for your machine here.
cerberus.netria.com
netria.com
cerberus.ne.mediaone.net
This is from when I had my own domain, netria.com. In order for my mail
server to accept mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I needed that second entry.
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