On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:19:06AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > But then how come sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends it correctly > to my local user account ? Why should [EMAIL PROTECTED] be treated/relayed > any differently than [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Postfix does alias database rewrites at the local delivery stage. What is happening is that Postfix sees "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and tries to deliver it locally. If the account is just an account (as for your user account) all is well. If the account is an alias then Postfix replaces the destination address with the address or addresses on the right hand side of the alias and starts delivering them. The problem is that your aliases have no domain part so Postfix puts a default in but isn't configured to deliver this default locally. What are the values of mydestination, myorigin, myhostname and mydomain? What is the output of "hostname"? A quick hack that should work around the problem would be to change your alias database to have right hand sides in [EMAIL PROTECTED] form. > But if I remove the relayhost line from /etc/main.cf, how will I be able > to send email to any other internet users e.g. this list, etc. ? Removing the relayhost won't help at all. By the time Postfix looks at the relayhost it has already decided to try to deliver the mail remotely. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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