Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!wuarchive!uwm.edu!archimedes.math.uwm.edu!jgreco From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Sendmail 5.64 (Berkeley) coughs up an error on local SMTP Summary: possible problem in sendmail/src/srvrsmtp.c Keywords: help! Message-ID: <6828@uwm.edu> Date: 8 Oct 90 23:14:36 GMT Sender: news@uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics Lines: 39 Hello, I've just brought up a "new" version of sendmail, 5.64, to replace the older 5.61 and give us MX record capabilities. In testing it, I ran into a really odd situation. Our sitewide configuration specifies verbose delivery always.... I mailed myself on the same machine and specified the same host, expecting that Sendmail would either have to look up the host name or figure it out by itself, and I got: (banach.root.p1-3) 6:02pm ~ 1 # mail jgreco@b Subject: test test message . Cc: jgreco@b... Connecting to banach.math.uwm.edu via inet... Trying 129.89.14.65... connected. 220 banach.math.uwm.edu BSD Sendmail 5.61/2.01 ready to mangle your mail at Mon, 8 Oct 90 18:03:20 -0500 >>> HELO banach.math.uwm.edu 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local I traced this down to line 200-205 in sendmail/src/srvrsmtp.c... it appears to be a very simple error and should probably read: "553 can't specify local host name" ... it appears to be a recursion trap. But (imho) Sendmail really should allow this kind of behaviour. I commented out the offending code, as it doesn't seem to be something that is really all that configurable. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu USnail: Joe Greco Voice: 414/321-6184 9905 W. Montana Ave. Data: 414/321-9287 (Happy Hacker's BBS) West Allis, WI 53227-3329 ICBM: 43 05 20 N 87 53 10 W #include Disclaimer: I don't speak for the Math Department, the University, or myself.