Am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2003 20:12 schrieb richard bown: > Hi Jack > > well a fair progress. > > I can send mail to myself routing it thru the mail redirectat > freeparking, to dyndns and thru postfix on this machine , with evolution > pulling the mail from /var/spool/mail. > > However there a small snag > > > I send a mail from evolution to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > thats sent to smtp.blueyonder.co.uk > which sends it to freeparking > which redirects it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > which sorta flys past dyndns to postfix on this machine. > > My hostname here is gb7tf.org.uk > in /etc/postfix/aliases > > richard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > in /etc/posfix/virtual > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard > > in etc/postfix/main.cf > mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain > rf-engineer.homelinux.com ##thats all 1 line
the domain/host rf-engineer.homelinux.com is either virtual or it is in mydestination but never both. Think of it. mydestination defines the domain/hostpart which postfix consider as final destination to himself. > > virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual > alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases > myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk > myorigin = $mydomain > masquerade_domains = $mydomain > virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual > canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical > relayhost = smtp.blueyonder.co.uk > > I did get some help with the mydestination line on the club site tnx > > so what happens is the mail arrives addressed to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > BUT it arrives in evolution as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and thats also the reply > address which is not so good. You have to rewrite the recipient address (use the canonical map) > > At least I can send mail to myself and it takes a few 10's of seconds > now , compared with up to 10 mins via my ISP's popserver, also their pop > sever can take up to 30 mins to authenticate the password > The marvels of microsoft !!!! :) > > > Any ideas where where that missing part of the address is going on my > system. > The last time I played with mail servers was on NOS which is a clone of > the NOS written by Phil Karn nearly 20 years ago. > And then rewrite files were called rewrite files. > > TIA > Richard > And, if you are in doublt what postfix is doing look in the logs. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------ H E L I X Gesellschaft f�r Software & Engineering mbH ------------------------------------------------------------ Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 D-60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.helix-gmbh.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------
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