Thanks. I'll be damned if I didn't remove the sendmail RPM ... could have
sworn I did that!
Thanks again.
Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:46 AM
To: Charles Boening
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: mail loop problem
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:33:15AM -0800, Charles Boening wrote:
> I'm running qmail 1.03 on a RH 7 (kernel 2.2.17) system. This is an
> internal server providing DNS (internal and forwarding for external
> resolution), mail and web services. I'm running vpopmail 4.9.4.
Everything
> seems to be working fine except sending from the mail server to an address
> hosted on the mail server (local mail). Incoming mail from the rest of
the
> Internet seems to work, mail from other servers internally seems to work,
> again, just mail initiated locally is broken.
>
> I'm also hosting other domains on this same system and they are behaving
> similarly ... mail from outside works, mail initiated from the mail server
> doesn't.
>
> all the domains are listed in rcpthosts and virtual domains properly.
>
> Here's what I see in my bounced message (it gets bounced to root@localhost
> and placed in an mbox)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 5.3.5 mail.jahl.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 5.3.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local configuration error
That's sendmail talking, not qmail. How are you injecting this mail? Is
/usr/sbin/sendmail (or wherever sendmail is on your system) a symlink to
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail?
Chris
