Hello Doug, What do your postfix logs say about this? It sounds like postfix thinks it is the destination for ds7.net mail, so when dbmail hands the forward off to it, postfix attempts to reinject it into dbmail...
Likely causes include improper DNS records (incorrect or no MX record for ds7.net), an entry into postfix's transport table that mentions ds7.net, and, um, well, that's really about it. If the MX record can't be resolved properly, postfix will try to deliver it to whatever 'ds7.net' resolves to. This is usually the web site machine... I found this out while tracking down why a lot of spam was coming to our server for domains that do not have MX records (no email, so no MX), and found out that other mail servers were trying to deliver to the web host IP. Locking postfix down to a single IP kept the spammers from dumping mail into non-accounts. DS> I'm trying to simulate the effects of a .forward file... DS> I have a domain and I want to forward mail coming in to DS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] DS> I'm using dbmail to accept mail for dstan.net but not for DS> ds7.net (it's mail is hosted elswhere). DS> I did what I've found in the archives, that is set up DS> an alias entry where the alias is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the DS> deliver to is [EMAIL PROTECTED], however when i try sending DS> mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i just get a bounch from dbmail-smtp DS> that says address [EMAIL PROTECTED] not known here. DS> Am I doing something wrong? Is there more to the configuration DS> than just adding the alias? DS> Thanks for your help in advance, DS> Doug DS> p.s. here is what the top of the bounce looks like... DS> ------------------------------------------------------------ DS> This is the DBMAIL-SMTP program. DS> I'm sorry to inform you that your message, addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], DS> could not be delivered due to the following error. DS> *** E-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not known here. *** DS> If you think this message is incorrect please contact DS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] DS> Header of your message follows... DS> _______________________________________________ DS> Dbmail mailing list DS> [email protected] DS> https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail -- Jeff Brenton President, Engineered Software Products, Inc http://espi.com Questionable web page: http://dididahdahdidit.com Liberalism grants you the freedom to advocate any idea*. * Please see http://www.dididahdahdidit.com/except.php for a current list of exceptions
