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From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: loopy sendmail
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.235946.29815@intacc.uucp>
Date: 2 Jun 91 23:59:46 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access Artists' Centre Toronto
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My sendmail's gone loopy - no matter what I do, I can't get it to put
the right hostname in mail headers. It's supposed to be intacc, but now
it says "loop".  I'm not sure what it was that I did to cause this; I
did a bunch of things - upgraded to 2.0.1, rebuilt the kernel with a new
driver, removed networking support from the kernel, changed sendmail.cf,
etc., that could have influenced it, I guess.

To try and fix this:

-I reinstalled networking support in the kernel
-I reinstalled Alexis' sendmail.cf and did a sendmail -bz. I haven't changed
anything except the smart-host. This worked for me before.
-/etc/HOSTNAME contains: intacc  uucp
-/etc/hostname reports intacc
-uuname -l reports intacc
-/etc/hosts contains: 0x7F.0x00.0x00.0x01 loop lo loo intacc
 (I tried putting intacc first, but it didn't make any difference)
-gethostname(2) reports intacc

So why does sendmail think the hostname is loop?

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