Mark mentioned,

> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:20:12PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

> > I can send mail from  my debian box to anywhere except my local domain.

> You don't provide any details of your configuration - which MTA are you
> using (smail?), and how did you set it up?

It's smail, as an internet site.  

visible_name=hawkins.cba.uni.edu
more_hostnames=localhost
-domains
hostnames=hawkins.cba.uni.edu:uni.edu
                              ^^^^^^^^

hmm, is this it?

> > The debian box is hawkins.cba.uni.edu, and any mail to any account at=20
> > uni.edu yields the result,
 
> >   hawkins at uni.edu: loses; [USER] 550 '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'=20
> > <hawkins@(nodomain)> not matched: (ERR_100) unknown user.
> > post: 1 addressee undeliverable

> Where does this error message come from?


Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivery-Date: Tue Sep  7 12:35:35 1999
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by hawkins.cba.uni.edu
        via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413)
        id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.102)
        for <hawk>; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:35:34 -0500 (CDT) 
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: hawk
Subject: send failed on enclosed draft
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:35:32 -0500
From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

  connelly at uni.edu: loses; [USER] 550 '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' 
<connelly@(nodomain)> not matched: (ERR_100) unknown user.
post: 1 addressee undeliverable

Message not delivered to anyone.

hmm, so this is coming from my machine?  I had interpreted the text as coming 
from uni.edu.

rick


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