/dev/rob0:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:13:01PM -0800, Bryan Harrison wrote:
> > Viktor:
> > > Perhaps the original domain is incorrectly listed in
> > > $mydestination
> >
> > I have no mydestination entry. Can I use one to force the correct
> > behavior?
>
> Not listing mydestination in main.cf means you get the default
> setting for mydestination, which is rarely what people want for
> mydestination. That's a setting which should not be left to chance
> (the vagaries of gethostbyname() resolution.)[1]
To avoid brain-dead failure modes, the mydestination default uses
gethostname(2) (the node name in the local kernel) not gethostbyname(3)
(some remote lookup service). Using gethostbyname(3) would cause
Postfix processes to hang when the network is down.
Wietse
> You might benefit from review of the Basic Configuration README.
> Check your settings for those configuration items.
>
>
> [1] That might sound like a criticism of the default for
> mydestination, but it is not. The default is as good as
> possible, but human supervision is necessary to set up a MTA.
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