At 05:58 PM 5/17/02, you wrote:
>On Fri, 17 May 2002 15:51:14 -0400
>David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a problem with postfix and /etc/aliases. I want mail to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > When I add "admin: user" to /etc/aliases and then run newaliases, I
> > see mail.mydomain.com attempt to forward the message to itself - which
> > is rejected as "(mail for mail.mydomain.com loops back to myself)".
> >
> > I'm using Mandrake 8.2 with postfix-20010228.
> >
> > Anybody know what's needed?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>If admin has a home directory put in it a .forward file that says root
>or [EMAIL PROTECTED] either way. I have all of roots e-mail forwarded
>to user james this way. >
> > David
> >
The solution called for a change in postfix/main.cf. I needed the
following lines:
myhostname=mydomain.com
mydestination=mydomain.com
I didn't have the "myhostname" line and had
"mydestination=mail.mydomain.com".
I had "mail.mydomain.com" as a PTR record to the A record for
"mydomain.com". I think that postfix didn't realize that the two names
were equivalent, so it was forwarding the message and getting into trouble.
With the above definitions, there is no need for "@mydomain.com" in
/etc/aliases and no need for .forward files.
All is fine now --- at least until I discover something else broken :-)
David
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