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From: jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.64 (Berkeley) coughs up an error on local SMTP
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Date: 23 Oct 90 13:38:10 GMT
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In article <6828@uwm.edu> jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) writes:
>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.

Well, it's not only a recursion trap but also a sanity check.  What it's
trying to tell you is that you've got a problem in your configuration file,
in that sendmail didn't recognize the recipient hostname as its own.  So
the daemon rejects the connection and tells you to fix your config file.

>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.

But it definitely is configurable.  You don't have your local hostname
properly defined in your config file.  Use the sendmail -bt mode to
test how sendmail resolves a given address; e.g., entering "3,0
user@banach.math.uwm.edu" *should* show it resolving to the local
mailer, with a username of "user".  But in your case, it will probably
show it resolving to the inet mailer: this is your problem.  Find where
the local hostname and domain name are defined in the config file, and
make sure they are correct.  If you are unsure about this, feel free to
mail your config file to me (at the below address) and I'll give it a
shot.

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