vskahan@lgnp1.MASA.COM (Vince Skahan) (10/30/88)
the "I refuse to talk to myself" error probably has nothing to do with the fact that you have smail.. I had the same message when my Apollo sendmail.cf allowed mail via the TCP mailer to the node that was sending the mail...I guess it has something to do with having the SMTP port already open or something... make sure that there's no way you can send mail to yourself (on the sending node) except from the local mailer... -- Vince Skahan UUCP: lgnp1!vskahan Internet: skahan@boeing.com
cricket@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM (Cricket Liu) (11/02/88)
/ hp-sde:comp.mail.sendmail / smartin@iemisi.UUCP (Stephen Martin) / 4:39 am Oct 25, 1988 /
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>>> HELO iemisi.dhc
<<< 553 iemisi.dhc I refuse to talk to myself
554 <root@iemisi>... Service unavailable: Bad file number
I saw the very same symptoms Thursday of last week on one of our systems.
Turned out that the system thought its hostname was "zippy" but it was
listed in the host table as having an entirely different canonical name,
with "zippy" as an alias. I just changed the hostname of the machine to
the canonical name listed in the host table and everything was kosher.
Alternatively, changing the host table submission should work equally
well, but might take time to propagate.
If you're running named, you might check any cname records for iemisi.dhc
and make sure the canonical name is, in fact, the same name iemisi.dhc
thinks it is.
Oh, and you should probably restart the mailer after you're done, so it'll
recheck the hostname.
Let me know if this works.
Cricket Liu ARPA/CSNET: cricket@hpiosa.hp.com
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