Sendmail Domain Append problem

[Serial # 19781010]

I just received this following error message.

The original message was received at Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:39:54 -0500
from ip.ipaddress.net [111.111.111.111]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<st...@somedomain.com>
(reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
553 5.3.5 somedomain.com.appended-domain.org. config error: mail loops
back to me (MX problem?)
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

.....

From what I understand email was sent to st...@somedomain.com but my
system appended appended-domain.org a domain that I host. Of course
the name is different but you get the idea. I am wondering why it did
this. Mail is delivered fine to other addresses. But it just append
a domain i host to that outboud to field.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Scott

[Adam Beres]

Hello Scott,

look in the file:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sendmailv8.html#Q4.5
and search "loop"
have You configured dns corectly ?

I hope you can solve
Adam
http://www.adamberes.de

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[Joe]

> From what I understand email was sent to st...@somedomain.com but my
> system appended appended-domain.org a domain that I host. Of course
> the name is different but you get the idea. I am wondering why it did
> this. Mail is delivered fine to other addresses. But it just append
> a domain i host to that outboud to field.
>

I saw this once, go to your sendmail.cf and there is a line like:
H?F?From:$?$x <$g>$|$g$
Change that to:
H?F?FROM <$g>

Then HUP sendmail.

Joe

[Claus Aßmann]

Serial # 19781010 wrote:

> 553 5.3.5 somedomain.com.appended-domain.org. config error: mail loops
> back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

See the FAQ.

> From what I understand email was sent to st...@somedomain.com but my
> system appended appended-domain.org a domain that I host. Of course
> the name is different but you get the idea. I am wondering why it did
> this. Mail is delivered fine to other addresses. But it just append
> a domain i host to that outboud to field.

You most likely have a wildcard MX record for your domain.

See cf/README about that.

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[Per Hedeland]

In article <71e73a4f.02031...@posting.google.com>

gro...@twominustwo.com (Joe) writes:
>
>I saw this once, go to your sendmail.cf and there is a line like:
>H?F?From:$?$x <$g>$|$g$
>Change that to:
>H?F?FROM <$g>

Very bad advice in general, and can't possibly help with the OP's
problem.

--Per Hedeland
p...@bluetail.com