Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!bu.edu!purdue!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!decuk.uvo.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!jch From: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Ultrix sendmail.cf quesion Message-ID: <1990Nov6.174059.7522@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Date: 6 Nov 90 17:40:59 GMT References: <9011040412.AA06392@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@hollie.rdg.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 25 In article <9011040412.AA06392@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu>, leach@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Gregory E Leach) writes: |> |> We have an "out of the box" sendmail.cf for ultrix. |> |> 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. With the standard ULTRIX, the usual cause of this is not refreezing the config file or not restarting sendmail or both. You should also be aware that the default value of $w is the *unqualified* hostname, which is wrong, but livable with: you can define it explicitly to be the FQDN. At this point, however, you may discover that the config file has some interesting and naive viewpoints about FQDNs. -- -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>