On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery > > agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself > > into infinite loops trying to deliver to "localhost" and then it just > > returns "too many hops" errors. > > > Try to add localhost to the "hostname=" line in /etc/smail/config. > Like hostname=localhost:foo:foo.domain.com
Yes. Thanks -- I discovered this early this morning. Shouldn't smailconfig automatically assume that hostname=localhost:foo:foo.domain.com should be added in /etc/smail/config? The only way to do this currently is to answer the "Is this system known by any other names?" question with "Yes; localhost" ... is there a case where you _wouldn't_ want this, and if so, is it a _default_ one? Will -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. | | -- Taken from Hennesey and Patterson, | | _Computer_Organization_And_Design_:_The_Hardware_/_Software_Interface_ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .