sendmail won't talk to itself

[Brad Mears]

My HP 9000/370 occaisionly forgets how to receive mail.  When this happens, it
refuses all incoming mail with the following error message :

>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>
>While connected to deltahp.jsc.nasa.gov [134.118.141.8] (tcp):
>>-> HELO deltahp
><<< 553 deltahp I refuse to talk to myself
>
>554 <dbm at deltahp.jsc.nasa.gov>... Service unavailable

I have to restart sendmail to get it working right.  Any ideas why it might do
this?

BTW, I thought the HELO line was of the form HELO <calling machine>.  In the
case above, deltahp is the destination.  Is that part of the problem?

Please excuse the cross-posting of this msg, I wasn't sure where it fit best.
-- 
Brad Mears
dbm at icarus.jsc.nasa.gov

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