Ok that seemed to clear that up but brought about another problem. Now all my
mail is going to root even when addressed to Ray. In order to make it easier
to help me (and I really appreciate it) I have three separate users Shannon,
Ray and Page all want email addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] what do I need to set
them up. They are not aliases they are separate people. I've tried Oreilly's
latest Sendmail book and the docs online I'm getting confused.
Derek Martin wrote:
> Today, Ray Bowles gleaned this insight:
>
> > when ever I receive a message(e-mail) on my system it looks like this.
> > Any ideas. Thanks
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 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.
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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