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 --