Mail from root bounces

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9rv5gn$bna at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Michael Maxwell  <mmaxwell at see.sig> wrote:
>I'm having a problem where mail from root (and ONLY root) is being
>bounced with the message:
>
>  501 5.1.8 Domain of sender address <root at host.domain.com> does
>  not exist
>
>I strongly suspect a DNS issue here.  But what is confusing me is
>that this does not happen for any user other than root.

Probably the sendmail configuration causes other addresses to be rewritten,
e.g. from user at host.domain.com to user at domain.com, but it makes an
exception for root.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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