On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 16:13, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > Recently my wife received an Email addressed from jdavidson4 at home.com. > When she tried to reply to the original message her reply bounced with > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <jdavidson4 at home.com> > (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 553 5.3.5 home.com.nurdog.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX > problem?) > 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error > > I started to do some digging and discovered that there is no MX record > for home.com which is the ultimate reason my wife's message bounces. There is also no A record for home.com. It's going to bounce any way you try it. Comment the: FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl in sendmail.mc and you won't accept email with bad reply addresses. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com