cool, glad it worked i've had that problem plenty of times. one night when i was real tired, i tried to make a .forward file for root, to send to admin@ ..but instead i made the .forward in MY directory and mail was looping from aphro->admin->aphro and sendmail was spitting out maximal hop reached errors for a day ..DOH!! the other admins were getting flooded with these errors but since my mailbox was looping i had no idea it was going on till the next day :))
doh nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Oct 1999, aphro wrote: > > > > looks like its just a basic relaying problem. the mail server your using > > to send sees you from freserve.co.uk but you're telling it your from > > doctors.org.uk, in which case you gotta probably add doctors.org.uk to the > > database that tells sendmail to allow relays from that domain(for me the > > file is /usr/local/sendmail/domains-allowed-to-relay) either that or > > change your 'from' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and try again. > > > > nate > > > > I think you were right. I tried comparing the email files that worked in > one machine with those that didn't in the other and found that the only > difference was in the "From:" fields. Changing this immediately made the > mail work. > > Thank you for making me check this. I can't believe that it's taken me > two weeks to find something so simple. Numerous expletives deleted. > > Anthony > > -- > Anthony Campbell - running Linux - Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) > Book Reviews: www.pentelikon.co.uk/bookreviews/ > Alternative email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "It's no go the Yogi Man, it's no go Blavatsky." - Louis MacNeice >
