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From: osyjm@caesar.cs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Ultrix sendmail.cf quesion
Message-ID: <2871@dali>
Date: 5 Nov 90 00:59:55 GMT
References: <9011040412.AA06392@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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In article <9011040412.AA06392@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu> leach@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Gregory E Leach) writes:
>The problem is that mail to leach@zeus.franklin.edu gets through fine,
>but if the hostname is left off the mail is returned as undeliverable.
>ie
>	leach@franklin.edu
>is returned with the message " I refuse to talk to myself " or somethng
>similar.



We added a line (the one after "make user@cs...") to ours, and with the
proper MX record, it's working fine (ultrix 4.0, VAX).  this is in Rule 0,
machine dependent part.


# short circuit local hosts

#make user@cs.montana.edu be an acceptable address
R$*<@$D>$*              $1$2