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<question id="mail-loopback"> |
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<question id="mail-loopback"> |
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<para>Why does Sendmail give me an error reading |
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<para>Why does <application>sendmail</application> give me an error reading |
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<quote><errorname>mail loops back to |
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<quote><errorname>mail loops back to |
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myself</errorname></quote>?</para> |
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myself</errorname></quote>?</para> |
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<para>This is answered in the sendmail FAQ as follows:</para> |
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<para>This is answered in the <application>sendmail</application> FAQ as follows:</para> |
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<literallayout> * I'm getting "Local configuration error" messages, such as: |
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<para>The current version of the <ulink |
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<para>The current version of the <ulink |
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url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq">sendmail |
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url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq"><application>sendmail |
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FAQ</ulink> is no longer maintained with the sendmail release. |
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FAQ</application></ulink> is no longer maintained with the <application>sendmail</application> release. |
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It is however regularly posted to <ulink |
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It is however regularly posted to <ulink |
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url="news:comp.mail.sendmail">comp.mail.sendmail</ulink>, |
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url="news:comp.mail.sendmail">comp.mail.sendmail</ulink>, |
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<ulink url="news:comp.mail.misc">comp.mail.misc</ulink>, <ulink |
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<ulink url="news:comp.mail.misc">comp.mail.misc</ulink>, <ulink |
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<question id="sendmail-alternative"> |
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<para>What other mail-server software can I use instead of |
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<para>What other mail-server software can I use instead of |
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<application>sendmail</application>?</para> |
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</question> |
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<para><ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org/">Sendmail</ulink> is |
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<para><ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org/"><application>Sendmail</application></ulink> is |
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the default mail-server software for FreeBSD, but you can |
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the default mail-server software for FreeBSD, but you can |
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easily replace it with one of the other MTA (for instance, |
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easily replace it with one of the other MTA (for instance, |
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an MTA installed from the ports).</para> |
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an MTA installed from the ports).</para> |
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<para>Diversity is nice, and the fact that you have many |
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<para>Diversity is nice, and the fact that you have many |
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different mail-servers to chose from is considered a |
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different mail-servers to chose from is considered a |
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good thing; therefore try to avoid |
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good thing; therefore try to avoid |
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asking questions like <quote>Is Sendmail better than |
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asking questions like <quote>Is <application>sendmail</application> better than |
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Qmail?</quote> in the mailing lists. If you do feel like |
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Qmail?</quote> in the mailing lists. If you do feel like |
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asking, first check the mailing list archives. The |
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asking, first check the mailing list archives. The |
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advantages and disadvantages of each and every one of the |
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advantages and disadvantages of each and every one of the |
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<question id="sendmail-port-587"> |
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<question id="sendmail-port-587"> |
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<para>Sendmail is listening on port 587 as well as the |
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<para><application>sendmail</application> is listening on port 587 as well as the |
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standard port 25! What is going on?</para> |
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standard port 25! What is going on?</para> |
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<para>Recent versions of Sendmail support a |
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mail submission feature that runs over port 587. This is |
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mail submission feature that runs over port 587. This is |
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not yet widely supported, but is growing in |
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not yet widely supported, but is growing in |
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popularity.</para> |
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<para>In the DNS case, you should try to determine what is |
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<para>In the DNS case, you should try to determine what is |
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actually trying to resolve a host name. A lot of the |
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actually trying to resolve a host name. A lot of the |
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time, &man.sendmail.8; is the culprit. You should make |
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time, &man.sendmail.8; is the culprit. You should make |
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sure that you tell sendmail not to do any DNS lookups in |
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its configuration file. See the section on <ulink |
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its configuration file. See the section on <ulink |
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url="&url.books.handbook;/smtp-dialup.html">using email with a |
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dialup connection</ulink> in the FreeBSD Handbook for |
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<programlisting>define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `d')dnl</programlisting> |
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<para>This will make sendmail queue everything until the |
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queue is run (usually, sendmail is invoked with |
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<option>-bd -q30m</option>, telling it to run the queue |
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every 30 minutes) or until a <command>sendmail |
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