On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:19:10PM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > Postfix *is* supposed to relay. The postfix instance is running on > > phoenix, and the mail is addressed to root, which phoenix has aliased > > as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Ah, ok. Some thoughts: > > - You might be able avoid the issue by changing the root alias to point > to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' instead. > > - AFAIK Postfix does not consult resolv.conf; it talks to DNS directly.
Oh. How does it find a name server to talk to without /etc/resolv.conf? > > - See 'man 5 postconf' for reference. > > - Use 'postconf | less' to see the current config values. > > - The Postfix 'mydomain' parameter should be set to 'localdomain'. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# postconf | grep mydomain append_dot_mydomain = no mydomain = localdomain > You can use the 'dnsdomainname' command to find out what the machine > thinks its domain name is. The way to change the domain name > persistently varies by distribution. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dnsdomainname [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# This is on ubuntu 7.10. I also have a name server on charlesc, Fedora Core 7, which I am trying to phase out. When I run it, the mail system works. When I don't, the mail system breaks. This may be related to the fact that when I set phoenix up, charlesc was the main DNS and everything else server. > > - Setting up MX records isn't hard and may pay off in stability. So I need an MX record as well as an A name for each machine? Yucch. > > - If you must, you can short-circuit the whole name lookup using a > transport map. See the 'transport_maps' Postfix parameter. > However, while transport maps are powerful, this sort of hack > shouldn't be necessary. I have or have had working sendmail systems. Maybe I should just put sendmail on all my Ubuntu machines. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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