Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!decwrl!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!garnett From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Mail problem in AIX PS/2 V1.2 Summary: solution - Cw requires two arguments Keywords: sendmail.cf aix ps/2 Cw aliases self Message-ID: <58@persian.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 20:19:08 GMT References: <5050@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <1990Sep6.151050.14474@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5057@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 40 In article <5057@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> vlcek@mit-caf.UUCP (Jim Vlcek) writes: >I've gotten a number of replies to my question about a sticky mail >problem with AIX PS/2 V1.2, in which all mail sent to the machine >bounces with the following retort: >From: MAILER-DAEMON@foobar.mit.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem) >Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>>> HELO foobar.mit.edu ><<< 553 foobar.mit.edu Do not communicate with self >554 ... Service unavailable: No such file or directory >People first suspected the name and domain macro and class definitions >in sendmail.cf, so here's what I've got there: >Dwfoobar >Cwfoobar [ remainder of message deleted ] I have received this same message in the past. My mistake was to use only one argument to the Cw macro when it actually requires two (or none). It appears that this may be the problem you are experiencing. I would try "Cw foobar barfoo" or just "Cw". Make sure to recompile the sendmail database after changing sendmail.cf. I believe you can do this with "/usr/lib/sendmail -bz" and "/usr/lib/sendmail -bi". You might also want to restart the sendmail daemon (not sure if this is necessary or not). You should also run the hostname command to make sure that your host sees itself as foobar.mit.edu. -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas