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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: problems with sendmail under HP-UX 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.161714.11758@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 16:17:14 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.142353.19891@csus.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Jun27.142353.19891@csus.edu> chance@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Jon Naumann) writes:
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>users on the system can send mail to each other just fine, but when
>another host attempts to send mail it gets errors like :
>
>>-> HELO foghorn
><<< 553 foghorn I refuse to talk to myself

  This happens because 'foghorn.sfsu.edu' isn't recognized as local.

  You will have to make some changes in 'sendmail.cf' so that the local
mailer is selected for any of:   user, user@foghorn, user@foghorn.sfsu.edu

  Try running 'sendmail -bt' and running these addresses through ruleset 0.

  I can't tell you exactly what you need to change.  It might be as simple
as defining $D or $M to be your domain.  Or it might just be a matter of
getting domainname() correct.  Most vendors put a few comments in sendmail.cf
to help with the initial setup.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940