Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!archimedes.math.uwm.edu!jgreco From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.64 (Berkeley) coughs up an error on local SMTP Keywords: help! Message-ID: <6847@uwm.edu> Date: 9 Oct 90 17:15:53 GMT References: <6828@uwm.edu> <1990Oct9.080228.19314@wrl.dec.com> Sender: news@uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics Lines: 31 In comp.mail.sendmail article <1990Oct9.080228.19314@wrl.dec.com>, vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) wrote: :Yow. You commented it out? No. I commented it out and posted. :-) If I wasn't worried about it, I wouldn't have posted. :What'll happen if the subserver has the same problem some day, deciding :that the mail isn't local and connecting to a subserver, and ... so ... on? What happens right now when you can't mail to yourself and specify the local machine name? Better to have future problems and fix things now. :Wouldn't it be easier to just rip off your hostname in S0? 'cept I don't know the first thing about sendmail.cf, except for how to stuff in the hostname... What suprises me is that there would be a problem in something provided by Berkeley (the sendmail.cf configured for internet).... can anyone suggest a (specific) fix? Thanks in advance, ... 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.