Re: Mail loop

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Bob Nielsen writes:
> > 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:
> 
> This excerpt doesn't show enough configuration:
> 
>  . How is your local system called?
> 
>  . Does Smail know that nielsen@nielsen.tus.primenet.com should be
>    delivered locally?
>    Probably not.  Why?
>    -> check out /etc/smail/config:hostname
>    -> check out /etc/smail/config:more_hostnames
>    -> check out /etc/smil/paths

Bingo!  I needed to run smailconfig, which created the /etc/smail/config
file (I had previously done this, but the file wasn't there when I 
checked). 

> 
>  .  What does smail -d 30 -bv nielsen@nielsen.tus.primenet.com tell?

After doing the above, I get

[nielsen:nielsen]$ sudo smail -d 30 -bv nielsen@nielsen.tus.primenet.com
director user matched user nielsen
nielsen ... deliverable
30 ... not deliverable: unknown user

<pause while I check the man page>

That should have been -d30 not -d 30

All is well now.  Thanks.

Bob

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