I am still getting the loop.  I am getting the message back at my
mail.domain.com.  could it be something to do with dns or my mx for my
domain?

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Ansgar Wiechers <li...@planetcobalt.net>wrote:

> On 2012-04-08 Rich wrote:
> > My domain is domain.com
> > my email server is mail.domain.com and the main.cf settings are:
> > mydomain is domain.com
> > myhostname is mail.domain.com
> > I have a sender_bcc file that says
> >
> > user          u...@archive.domain.com
> >
> > the archive server is archive.domain.com the main.cf settings are:
> > mydomain = domain.com
> > myhostname is archive.domain.com
> > mydestination = archive.domain.com
> >
> > When I send mail from mail.domain.com it forwards the mail to
> > archive.domain.com.
> > I get the following error on the archive server.
> > "mail forwarding loop for u...@archive.domain.com"
> >
> > Where am I making mistake in the main.cf of the archive server?
>
> "u...@archive.domain.com" has a localpart "user" too, causing mail that
> was bcc'd to u...@archive.domain.com to loop back to archive.domain.com.
>
> Change the line
>
>  user  u...@archive.domain.com
>
> into
>
>  u...@domain.com       u...@archive.domain.com
>  u...@mail.domain.com  u...@archive.domain.com
>
> Regards
> Ansgar Wiechers
> --
> "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning."
> --Joel Spolsky
>

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