Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: RS/6000 sendmail HELO problem (AIX 3.1) Keywords: RS6000 sendmail: broke or not? Message-ID: <1991May3.115837.6354@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 3 May 91 11:58:37 GMT References: <27889@hydra.gatech.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 43 In article <27889@hydra.gatech.EDU> bokonon@prism.gatech.EDU (Chris Cheyney) writes: > >I have a problem with the RS/6000 sendmail. I've configured it >properly so it realizes who it is and who the UUCP relay is, but >it passes the wrong machine name in the HELO message sent to the >remote SMTP. > ><<< 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local Look at how $j is defined. It is usually defined on a line reading something like: Dj$w.$D or perhaps just Dj$w If properly configured, $j should be your fully qualified hostname. At the very least, it must be different from the value of $j on any host you talk to with SMTP. The '553 Local configuration error' message happens because, during the SMTP greeting phase (the HELO command), the value of $j on each host is compared. If both compare the same (possibly in a case-insensitive comparison) sendmail assumes it is talking to itself and exits with that error message. If changing $j doesn't correct the problem, then your sendmail really is talking to itself, and not properly recognizing some local addresses. >Any help you can provide (like a copy of sendmail 5.61 or greater >that's non-IBM that will work on the box :-)) will be greatly >appreciated. Paul Pomes has done a lot of work getting sendmail-5.65+IDA to run on many platforms including RS6000. You can ftp the package from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu. However the software is not your problem; the definition of $j or other configuration problems are what you need to fix. Running a different version of 'sendmail' with your current 'sendmail.cf' will likely see the same problem recur. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940