On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:06, Henrik Hempelmann wrote: > > Now lists.example.com is a CNAME pointing to server.example.com. > > > > So why is mail sent from the local machine with mailx working, while a > > message sent on port 25 with the same content is rejected? > > External MTA are rewriting (canonifying) [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] because of the CNAME pointing to it. So your postfix > will never see any [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses.
Thanks for the info, the CNAME was a large part of my problem. -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the >From field.
