Mail problem in AIX PS/2 V1.2

[Jack F. Vogel]

In article <5050 at mit-caf.MIT.EDU> vlcek at caf.mit.edu (Jim Vlcek) writes:
 
>From: MAILER-DAEMON at foobar.mit.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
>Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>>> HELO foobar.mit.edu
><<< 553 foobar.mit.edu Do not communicate with self
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>554 <root at FOOBAR.MIT.EDU>... Service unavailable: No such file or directory
 
>Anybody have any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
 
I always have loved this error message :-}! Your problem is that the fully
qualified name "foobar.mit.edu" is not resolving to the local mailer, instead
it is resolving to the tcp mailer and it then tries to talk smtp to itself!
As it happens I just saw this problem the other day in our San Diego subdomain.
What you need to do to fix this is make sure you have the D,E,F... macros
defined. You should have the following lines:

DDmit.edu
DEmit
DFedu

If you look at the cf file there is an example of this in the comments. I am
fairly sure doing that will eliminate the error. Good luck!

Disclaimer: I may administer LCC mail, but I don't speak for the company :-}.

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