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[netadmin@xxxxxxxxx (Kevin Sandy)]

The line "Fw/etc/sendmail.cw" tells sendmail to take the contents of the
/etc/sendmail.cw file and place them in the "w" macro.  The "w" macro is
used to hold the names of all the hosts that the server will accept mail
for.  Before you referenced this file, sendmail did not have techlinks.com
listed, so it wasn't accepting mail for it.

Hope that helps!

Kevin

> Hello gang:
> 
> I was having a problem with my mail server after I changed my hostname
> from livebandwidth.com to techlinks.com.  It appears that when YAST
> rewrote the sendmail.cf file, it hadn't picked up my
> reference to Fw/etc/sendmail.cw .  As such, my root mail account kept
> receiving the following:
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 553 mail.techlinks.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 <ljackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Local configuration error
> 
> 
> Anyhow, all is fixed now but I don't know why it is.  I'm just trying to
> understand what is happening under the hood when I correctly added the
> Fw/etc/sendmail.cw .  Can anyone enlighten me why I was getting these
> errors and how the Fw/etc/sendmail.cw helped?  By the way, the contents of
> sendmail.cw are:
> 
> livebandwidth.com
> mail.bandwidth.com
> techlinks.com
> mail.techlinks.com
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Lester 


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