help with network mail to an rt

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From: Paul Siders
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1989 23:02

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I am unable to get BITNET mail sent directly to my RT.  I know very little
about customizing sendmail, so my problem may be simple. Can someone help?

I'm running AIX 2.2.1, and have an ethernet connection to a local network.
I can get mail to and from the principal computer on the network: ub.d.umn.edu .
My rt's name is rtchem.d.umn.edu .  When I tried mailing to
   psiders@rtchem.d.umn.edu
from a remote computer (specifically, sc.msc.umn.edu at the Minneota
Supercomputer Center) the message was returned, with the following transcript:
   >>> HELO rtchem
   <<< 553 rtchem Do not communicate with self
   554 <psiders@rtchem.d.umn.edu>... Service unavailable: No such file or directory


The same "553 rtchem Do not communicate sith self" message is returned when
I try mailing something WITHIN rtchem (say, from root to a user), but use
the full domain name in the address.

Can someone suggest what I've likely got wrong?  Is there a relevant portion
of a particular manual that I should read?  Thanks for any suggestions.

   Paul Siders    (psiders@ub.d.umn.edu)

   (I'm a novice at unix and the rt, so please keep
    suggestions explicit and simple.)

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From: psiders@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Paul Siders)
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Subject: help with network mail to an rt
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Date: 8 Feb 89 23:02:38 GMT
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