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From: diamant@hpfclp.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Too many hops... Why?
Message-ID: <7270004@hpfclp.HP.COM>
Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 23:59:08 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 31 23:59:08 1987
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>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >>> HELO ocean.harvard.edu
> <<< 553 ocean.harvard.edu I refuse to talk to myself
> 554 <leslie@ocean>... Service unavailable: Bad file number

This indicates that ocean.harvard.edu has a bug in its sendmail configuration.
Show this message to the mail adminstrator on that system (you might be
able to mail to postmaster@ocean.harvard.edu unless their mailer is too sick
to handle that address).  In a correct configuration, this should never happen.
The problem is that the logic in the configuration file told it to establish
a network connection with itself (an SMTP link where source and destination
are the same machine).


John Diamant
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