Re: All mail to all hosts being bounced; why??
cool, glad it worked
i've had that problem plenty of times. one night when i was real tired, i
tried to make a .forward file for root, to send to admin@ ..but instead i
made the .forward in MY directory and mail was looping from
aphro->admin->aphro and sendmail was spitting out maximal hop reached
errors for a day ..DOH!! the other admins were getting flooded with these
errors but since my mailbox was looping i had no idea it was going on till
the next day :))
doh
nate
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 27 Oct 1999, aphro wrote:
> >
> > looks like its just a basic relaying problem. the mail server your using
> > to send sees you from freserve.co.uk but you're telling it your from
> > doctors.org.uk, in which case you gotta probably add doctors.org.uk to the
> > database that tells sendmail to allow relays from that domain(for me the
> > file is /usr/local/sendmail/domains-allowed-to-relay) either that or
> > change your 'from' to ac@pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk and try again.
> >
> > nate
> >
>
> I think you were right. I tried comparing the email files that worked in
> one machine with those that didn't in the other and found that the only
> difference was in the "From:" fields. Changing this immediately made the
> mail work.
>
> Thank you for making me check this. I can't believe that it's taken me
> two weeks to find something so simple. Numerous expletives deleted.
>
> Anthony
>
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