Pulling my hair out over Sendmail

[voltrader]

I recently switched hosting companies from a great host who wouldn't upgrade from MySQL 3.23 (due to site-wide Plesk installations) to a not-so-good host with updated software.

As a result I was forced to take a crash-course in Linux/Apache et al.

My site is finally up and running, and I'm able to send outgoing mail using Sendmail, however I can't seem to receive any mail.

I get this failure notice when I try to send e-mail:

#*$!.xx.xx.xx does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 554 5.0.0 rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50),
ruleset canonify
Giving up on #*$!.xx.xx.xx.

I believe it's a Sendmail configuration error. If anyone can help, it would be most appreciated.

I'm running Fedora Core 2 OS.

Thanks.

[voltrader]

I should make the above more clear. I get that error message from yahoo mail when I try to send mail to my website server.

Thanks.

[sitz]

"Any chance to install a new mailserver is an opportunity NOT to install sendmail" --unknown

That said, this is the Apache forum, so I doubt you'll get much help with sendmail here; you could *try* the Linux forum [webmasterworld.com], or the sendmail mailing lists [sendmail.org]. Of course, I'd also suggest using Postfix or Exim as an MTA rather than Sendmail.... =)