On January 06, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly: > This is such an old question. But I guess I could really learn > something. > I was trying to send my sendmail a email messages from my yahoo account. > And I got the usual newbie error: > > "553 5.3.5 localhost.myname.org. config error: mail loops back to me (MX > problem?)" > > what did I miss? I got no 553 if I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather > than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did I misread some docs? > > My private domain is myname.org. > I am using myname.homeip.net as the dynamic DNS name. > > /var/named/pz/myname.org: > # snipped > $ORIGIN myname.org. > 10 IN MX localhost > 20 IN MX localhost > localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 > #snipped > > /etc/mail/mailertable: > > homeip.net smtp:[localhost] > homeip.net. smtp:[localhost] > > /etc/mail/local-host-names: > myname.org
This is a FAQ specifically dealth with in the sendmail FAQ at http://www.sendmail.org/. Kurt -- You are magnetic in your bearing. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
