by Dear All,
We have a new Sun machine running Solaris. Apparently our mail
configuration is set up improperly - we are not able to send mail to any
users on the Sun from another machine. In fact, the mailer daemon, on
receiving an external mail message, keeps on sending mail to root due to
the error and keeps on bouncing back and forth until the file system is
all full.
The mailer daemon's mail message to root is as enclosed ("shadow" is the
name of the Sun, "rs733" is the name of an IBM RS/6000 trying to send
mail to a user on "shadow"; our domain name is "gsfc.nasa.gov" and both
machines are under the same domain.)
Any guidance or enlightenment will be much appreciated. Thanks in
advance!
... Edwin Fung
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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From: Mailer-Daemon (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Local configuration error
To: postmaster
Content-Length: 7708
Status: RO
The original message was received at Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:49:37 -0400
from rs733.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.153.19]
----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 MX list for shadow.gsfc points back to nasa.gov
553 nasa.gov config error: mail loops back to myself
Received: from rs733.gsfc.nasa.gov by nasa.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id SAA01569; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:49:37 -0400
Received: from shadow.gsfc.nasa.gov by rs733.gsfc.nasa.gov (AIX 3.2/UCB
5.64/4.0
3)
id AA20618; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:59:30 -0400
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:59:37 -0400
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
content-length: 6650
--- The transcript of the session follows ---
>>> HELO rs733.gsfc.nasa.gov
<<< 553 There is a local configuration error. The hostname is not
recognized as
local.
--- The unsent message follows ---
Received: from shadow.gsfc.nasa.gov by rs733.gsfc.nasa.gov (AIX 3.2/UCB
5.64/4.0
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id AA14217; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:59:36 -0400
Received: from localhost by nasa.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id SAA01562; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:49:35 -0400
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:49:35 -0400
Subject: Returned mail: Local configuration error
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