Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Sendmail connecting to itself! Help? Message-ID: <1991Apr3.234406.8469@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 3 Apr 91 23:44:06 GMT References: <16986@sunquest.UUCP> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 15 In article <16986@sunquest.UUCP> jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336) writes: > >Please help me with this problem if you can. I am trying to get sendmail to >send to other hosts on the internet. I am running AIX PS/2 1.2 on a PS/2 >Model 70. Everything works fine except outbound mail. It seems that sendmail >connects back to the same machine instead of the destination machine: Many versions of 'sendmail.cf' come set up so that you can easily define a relay host. I bet you defined yourself to be the relay host. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940