> when I send from my Mac

> sending to the same address from mutt on the server itself works fine.

Peter, it sounds like it's attempting local delivery when it should be acting
as a relay. IOW, it's attempting gmail.com delivery to your box, then rejecting
it because that mailbox does not exist. Check your rules.

Regards
Lloyd

Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm extremely late to the game I know, but today I converted a mail server 
> from
> exim to OpenSMTPd with actually only minor fiddling.
> 
> But one thing stands out as odd: when I send from my Mac using Apple Mail
> to any address with a dot (.) in the local part, smtpd rejects the message:
> 
> May 10 17:54:27 skapet smtpd[3444]: 6fe63538de3844b2 smtp failed-command 
> command="RCPT TO:<[email protected]>" result="550 Invalid recipient: 
> <[email protected]>"
> 
> Oddly, sending to the same address from mutt on the server itself works fine.
> 
> Is this a known problem with Apple clients, or is it tweakable in the smtpd 
> config
> one way or the other?
> 
> - Peter
> 
> --
> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
> https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts 
> https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
> 
>

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