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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail/Smail/Domain name Miseries
Message-ID: <4991@inco.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 15:59:48 GMT
Reply-To: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
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Like a few others who have posted here recently, I just got my
domain name from uunet (alembic.acs.com) and I'm trying to get
my machine to accept mail under it. I'm running SunOS 3.2 with
sendmail 4.1 (?) and smail2.5. I modified /usr/lib/uucp/paths
to accomodate (I hope) the domain as follows:

.acs.com	%s	0
alembic		%s	0
alembic.acs.com	%s	0

I rebuilt smail after modifying defs.h to accomodate the domain
name and tried using the sendmail.cf built by smail. This resulted
in an infinite loop of smail -> sendmail -> smail ->... until
the process table overflowed and I had to reboot. I replaced the
smail-generated sendmail.cf with the one I'd been using before,
but with Dj$w.UUCP changed to Dj$w.ACS.COM. Same result, infinite loop.

At each iteration through the loop, it appears that smail delivers
the message, but also hands it off to sendmail which repeats the
process, so I get a huge number of messages, each with an additional
"Received: from alembic.acs.com..." header line.

Can anyone out there suggest a fix for this problem?

-- 
Dave Mack
inco!mack@uunet.uu.net