On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: >> far, but I am getting a "mail loops back to myself" error. > > It means that the recipient domain resolves to a local address. > > Unfortunately you ignored instructions in the mailing list welcome > message, and therefore there is no more concrete answer.
My apologies, trying again. The recipient domain does not map to this machine, as near as I can tell. This machine hosts mail for users @scribd.com. I am sending mail to i...@ianduggan.net, through this server. I am trying to configure postfix to work as follows: 1) In a header_check, look for a header "X-Vmta: n" where n is some number. 2) Based on n, choose an outgoing smtp transport (bound to some ip) Basically I want postfix to choose the outgoing IP based on a header that can be placed within the message. I am getting a "mail loops back to myself" error, however. The log output produced during the send is this: Nov 18 15:19:22 mail01 postfix/cleanup[3242]: D9024B689D2: filter: header X-Vmta: 2 from unknown[192.168.100.114]; from=<donotre...@scribd.com> to=<test.scr...@gmail.com> proto=SMTP helo=<raptor.local>: vmta2: Nov 18 15:19:22 mail01 postfix/smtp[3333]: D9024B689D2: to=<test.scr...@gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=0.05, delays=0.05/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for mail01.scribd.com loops back to myself) header_checks is here: header_checks: /^X-Vmta.*1$/ FILTER vmta1: /^X-Vmta.*2$/ FILTER vmta2: /^X-Vmta.*3$/ FILTER vmta3: /^X-Vmta.*4$/ FILTER vmta4: /^X-Vmta.*5$/ FILTER vmta5: Postfinger output: [r...@mail01 postfix]# postfinger postfinger - postfix configuration on Wed Nov 18 15:26:55 CST 2009 version: 1.30 Warning: postfinger output may show private configuration information, such as ip addresses and/or domain names which you do not want to show to the public. If this is the case it is your responsibility to modify the output to hide this private information. [Remove this warning with the --nowarn option.] --System Parameters-- mail_version = 2.5.1 hostname = mail01.scribd.com uname = Linux mail01.scribd.com 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux --Packaging information-- looks like this postfix comes from RPM package: postfix-2.5.1-1.mysql.sasl2.vda.rhel5 --main.cf non-default parameters-- alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases bounce_queue_lifetime = 3d disable_vrfy_command = yes header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.5.1-documentation/html mailbox_size_limit = 1000000000 mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix manpage_directory = /usr/share/man message_size_limit = 100000000 milter_default_action = accept mydestination = mail01.scribd.com, localhost, mail01.local, localhost.scribd.com mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 87.228.12.149 myorigin = scribd.com newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix non_smtpd_milters = inet:localhost:10099 readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.5.1-documentation/readme recipient_delimiter = + sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_invalid_hostname, permit smtpd_milters = inet:localhost:10099 smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:60000, permit transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport virtual_alias_domains = scribd.com, ipaper.scribd.com virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual --master.cf-- smtp inet n - n - - smtpd pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr tlsmgr unix - - n 1000? 1 tlsmgr rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce defer unix - - n - 0 bounce trace unix - - n - 0 bounce verify unix - - n - 1 verify flush unix n - n 1000? 0 flush proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap smtp unix - - n - - smtp fast unix - - n - 50 smtp vmta1 unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_bind_address=87.228.12.149 vmta2 unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_bind_address=174.66.250.36 vmta3 unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_bind_address=174.66.250.37 vmta4 unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_bind_address=174.66.250.38 vmta5 unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_bind_address=174.66.250.39 relay unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_fallback_relay= showq unix n - n - - showq error unix - - n - - error retry unix - - n - - error discard unix - - n - - discard local unix - n n - - local virtual unix - n n - - virtual lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp anvil unix - - n - 1 anvil scache unix - - n - 1 scache -- end of postfinger output -- --Ian