Sendmail or DNS? mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

[Sumit Mehrotra]

Try adding the line Cwdomain1.com to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. And do this for all the domains, you want the system to accept mails for.

- Sumit


On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Steven C. Job wrote:

> 
> I am doing virtual hosts with sendmail.  And I have a bunch of domains
> in the system.  So I was just including the domain names in the
> /etc/mail/local-hosts flie.
> 
> example of my file:
> > domain1.com
> > domain2.com
> > tiggee.com
> > domain4.com
> 
> 
> But then I get the following error when I try to send mail from one user
> on the machine to another user on the machine:
> > 553 5.3.5 server1.tiggee.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> > 554 5.3.5 <job at winnie.tiggee.com>... Local configuration error
> 
> I've tried everything to the DNS and it didn't work.  (I know I have it
> right.)
> 
> I was able to get it to work when I add the following line to the
> /etc/mail/local-hosts file:
> > server1.tiggee.com
> 
> Does this mean that I have to add a line to the localhosts file for
> every subdomain I would like mail sent to?  This can't be right...
> Someone please tell me how wrong I am.
> 
> Is my DNS wrong? (I don't think it is)  I only have this:
> > tiggee.com.	10800	IN	MX	10	mail.tiggee.com.
> 
> I've tried the following in DNS and all have failed:
> > *	10800	IN	MX	10	mail.tiggee.com.
> > server1.tiggee.com.	10800	IN	MX	10	mail.tiggee.com.
> 
> Thank you for any help,
> -Steve
> 
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