I may be wrong about this, and it may not be at all helpful, but I
think smail and sendmail are really the sSmail is invoked under a wide
variety of names, which serve to isolate some of its major uses:
receiving local mail, receiving remote mail, attempting delivery of
unde- livered mail and displaying information about undelivered
mail.ame program. From the smail man page:
> I first had smail on my system and then
Smail is invoked under a wide variety of names, which serve to
isolate some of its major uses: receiving local mail, receiving
remote mail, attempting delivery of unde- livered mail and
displaying information about undelivered mail.Smail is invoked
under a wide variety of names, which serve to isolate some of
its major uses: receiving local mail, receiving remote mail,
attempting delivery of unde- livered mail and displaying
information about undelivered
mail. replaced it with
> sendmail, and since then I cannot mail anything to my debian
> linux box. Regardless of the address, it says:
>
> 553 buo319b.econ.utah.edu. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Local configuration error
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Hans Ehrbar.
>
>
> Here is the full error message:
>
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:00:42 -0600
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Returned mail: Local configuration error
>
> This is a MIME-encapsulated message
>
> - --HAA00323.893682042/lists.econ.utah.edu
>
> The original message was received at Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:00:41 -0600
> from keynes.econ.utah.edu [128.110.114.5]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 buo319b.econ.utah.edu. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Local configuration error
>
> - --HAA00323.893682042/lists.econ.utah.edu
> Content-Type: message/delivery-status
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns; lists.econ.utah.edu
> Received-From-MTA: DNS; keynes.econ.utah.edu
> Arrival-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:00:41 -0600
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.5.0
> Remote-MTA: DNS; buo319b.econ.utah.edu
> Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:00:42 -0600
>
> - --HAA00323.893682042/lists.econ.utah.edu
> Content-Type: message/rfc822
>
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: from keynes.econ.utah.edu (keynes.econ.utah.edu [128.110.114.5])
> by lists.econ.utah.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA00321
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:00:41 -0600
> Received: from marx.econ.utah.edu.utah.edu by keynes.econ.utah.edu
> (5.x/SMI-SVR4)
> id AA13449; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:08:59 -0600
> Received: by marx.econ.utah.edu.utah.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
> id RAA18309; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:08:13 -0600
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:08:13 -0600
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Hans Ehrbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: test
>
>
> test
>
> - --HAA00323.893682042/lists.econ.utah.edu--
> ------- End of forwarded message -------
>
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