To be clear about this issue, although I object to organisations' sloppy attitude to standards, my question here is not about the use of an address without even an @. I use Apple Mail and that does not allow it, so I have set it up to use user@home and that will suffice.
The issue is that this does not work on the actual mail server. I can send from other rmachines ok, but not from the mail server itself. Since the error stating it could not resolve 'home' I added an MX record to the DNS and now the error says the address "loops back to myself". I forget the exact wording as a power cut means I lost the full exact message I copied. In reply to other replies that I did not receive due to email issues:- I don't want to involve the hosts or any other file as everything is maintained centrally in the DNS. It was stated that sending from a different host on the network used SMTP, implying that it does not when sent locally on the mail server. Does (postfix)sendmail not always use SMTP? In any case, how does that affect this problem? Also that the executables being run are likely to be the default ones and not those configured for the MacOSX Server. So I will change the PATH order and see if that makes any difference. Any repetition here is because I'm not sure if previous emails reached the list. External email issues have required me to change the email address I'm using to avoid any future problems. Ken G i l l e t t _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > On Tue 11 Jul 2023, at 21:28, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users > <postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote: > > Ken Gillett via Postfix-users: >> I disagree about Apple. In this respect they most definitely ARE >> idiots. Email addresses do NOT require anything after the @. That >> simply means the user of that name on the current host. If they > > Postfix by design makes this impossible; it was written as a > networked MTA. If you run it on an isolated instance, you can use > username@localdomain. > > Wietse > _______________________________________________ > Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org > To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
