Re: Mail loop

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Bob Nielsen, you wrote:
> 
> I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system.  It was
> received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected
> for excessive loops:

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> 
> ad infinitum (the last in the <long> string showed the mail being received
> from the remote system).  
> 
> Does anyone know what I am missing here?

an MX record? Does your MTA know that the machine you are sending
mail to is a local name to be delivered?

Tim

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