Hi,

I am having an OpenSMTPD configuration which relays local mail to
itself, failing after 100 (?) recursions.

The problem is that a periodic cron-job sends mail to root@`hostname`,
but the OpenSMTPD instance on `hostname` does not have a rule to accept
mail for `hostname`. `hostname` in this case is for example
mail2.mydomain.de. As mail2.mydomain.de does not have a MX record (only
mydomain.de has a MX record, pointing to mail.mydomain.de), it tries to
relay the mail directly to mail2.mydomain.de, that is, it tries to relay
the mail to itself. Luckily there is a limit and after 100 recursions it
stops.

It's easy to fix by adding a rule for mail2.mydomain.de, but I am just
curious wheather it's good practice or useful to relay to ourself, or
whether we want to forbid that?

Regards,

  Michael

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