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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: Name configuration error
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.163203.31963@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1992Dec15.070601.10884@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:32:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.070601.10884@athena.mit.edu> zchi@athena.mit.edu (Zhihang Chi) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >We are having trouble with sendmail on our Sun. If I define the relay
- >host to be mailhost, here's what happens:
-
- You are probably using 'sendmail.mx' which is doing a nameserver lookup
- for 'mailhost'. But apparently 'mailhost' is not known in your nameserver.
-
- The easiest solution is to edit 'sendmail.cf' and replace 'mailhost' by
- the true name of your mail host.
-
- >Now if I define the relay host to be localhost, here's what happens:
-
- >> 553 Hara.MIT.EDU host name configuration error
-
- Well, by listing 'localhost' you are telling your sendmail to connect
- to itself and create an infinite loop. It is just trying to tell you
- that is a rather unwise idea.
-
-