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[Suresh Ramasubramanian <r.suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, thus spake Babu Kalakrishnan:

> > Now when I try to send a mail from the user root to someother user
> > avenger, the mail stays in the queue as 'Deferred'. I have installed

Did you use the full hostname?  For ex, if you mailed
avenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx it'd work.

Try /etc/sendmail.cw and see what it shows.

> don't know  why sendmail should make such a fuss about resolving the
> "From:" address.. Must be something to do with _relaying_ after all !! :-)

Maybe a mistake in the domain name he sent it to.

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