----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I have always done it like this:
>
>     domain.com smtp:mail.destination.com
>
> and never had a problem.
>
> >From reading this I assume it would be preferred to use this notation
> instead, if I don't want to get into any sort of looping situation:
>
>    domain.com smtp:[mail.destination.com]
>
> Is that assumption correct?

Yes, that is correct.  You can also use the ip address:

domain.com smtp:[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

so that you don't have to add "mail.destination.com" to your hosts file,
since the brackets tell Postfix not to do a dns lookup.

Bill


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