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Here I go again with another problem: My NeXT refuses one type of address,

	@agsm.ucla.edu

It accepts the alias (in /etc/hosts and ni) of @agsm. I telneted to SMTP to see
what happens, and got an immediate "User unknown" message when typing this
address. That is, even though it is not my own node, sendmail didn't even
bother checking any outgoing relay hosts, but refused the address as an unknown
local user.

So, for seeing what's going on, my BSD SysAdm book recommends

	sendmail -bt

but even as a superuser I get "permission denied." With all of NeXT's niceties,
it is a real problem for a novice to administer Internet mail. There are a lot
of different files which carry information, and a BSD book may or may not be
correct in where relevant information is and how it is stored.

How can I track why I can't get the above address to work?

/ivo welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu