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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: Re: problems with receiving mail
- Nntp-Posting-Host: draco.acs.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2A9F0282.14258@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Lines: 29
- Date: 29 Aug 92 04:52:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.211523.27998@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
-
- In article <1992Aug27.211523.27998@bnlux1.bnl.gov> murphy@sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov (Michael Murphy) writes:
- >(here sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov is the DECstation 5000. bnlku2 is the machine
- >from which the message was sent)
- >
- >><<< RCPT To:<murphy@sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov>
- >><<< DATA
- >>>>> HELO sscdaq.bnl.gov
- >><<< 553 sscdaq.bnl.gov I refuse to talk to myself
- >>554 <murphy@sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov>... Service unavailable: Bad file number
-
- My guess here is that your system's official hostname used to be
- sscdaq.bnl.gov and you've changed it to sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov. Sendmail's
- frozen config file, /etc/sendmail.fc, has the old hostname in it, so when
- sendmail receives email for sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov, it doesn't realize that
- it is for itself and tries to send it on. When it opens an SMTP connection
- to sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov, it opens it to itself, then realizes it has
- done that and refuses to talk to itself.
-
- To fix this, recreate the frozen config file via
-
- # /usr/lib/sendmail -bz
-
- Then kill sendmail and restart it, or reboot the system.
-
-
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