On Sunday, Jan 12, 2013, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > No it's just supposed to send from the website. The destination is the
> hosted provider I mentioned earlier. I think others will have mentioned this one too, but from what I can read, Postfix is trying to deliver mydomain.com to the local system, which is the problem. Somehow Postfix has determined that it's an authorized mail end point for mydomain.com. So it receives a message for <anyone>@mydomain.comand accepts it, then tries to look up the user so it knows where to actually write the message to disk. But these users don't exist on the server, so it bounces the messages instead. I don't know where to tell you to look since I always use Exim as my MTA, but somewhere in the Postfix config is a list of domains that it is configured to accept mail for. You want to make sure mydomain.com is NOT in that list. If you want to contact me off list, I'd be happy to help you plug in Exim instead. Then I can guide you through any problems, and show you some tricks to help diagnose these issues yourself. :) I suspect what you did is set this up thinking that you needed to configure Postfix to allow messages for mydomain.com to be processed since they are being generated by the Drupal instance on that server. But that's not quite correct. Again, I don't know how to separate the two in Postfix, being a long time Exim user myself. But what you need to do is configure your server so that it knows nothing about mydomain.com, but does accept mail from localhost (127.0.0.1), or possibly from the IP address of that AWS instance. That is the best way I can think of. Good luck! --- Dan On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Kyle Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/12/2014 09:43 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > >> No it's just supposed to send from the website. The destination is the >> hosted provider I mentioned earlier. >> >> > > I ran into this in reverse recently. I'm hosting the email and the > website is hosted by the people who developed it. They were trying to send > an email to the people who the site is for and kept getting their mail sent > back to them, since their server didn't have those usernames. I was > contacted because they thought it was an error on my side with my server > bouncing the emails back. So at least you realized it was your > configuration and you didn't contact the admin of the proper email server :) > > Kyle > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
