On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 09:03:47AM -0700, sendu wrote: > On 17 Oct 2013, at 12:34, Wietse Venema [via Postfix] [Masked] > <fwd_sxh9d...@opayq.com> wrote: > > sendu: > > > > > > You mail is bounced because it contains a Delivered-To: header > > > > with the address of the recipient. > > > > > > > > Postfix adds this header upon delivery. The above error > > > > normally means that you have an email fordwading loop. > > > > > > Yes, I already understood that I have a mail forwarding loop > > > according to the error - see the subject line. My question is > > > what is causing it, and how do I solve it? Why didn't the other > > > email suffer the same problem?
AFAICT you have yet to share information which would enable us to answer these questions. > > Does the Delivered-To: header already exist in the message? If > > that is the case, you have been forwarding mail back and forth > > between Postfix and some other server. That is a mail delivery > > loop. > > Well not back and forth between my Postfix server. But in any case, > the messages in Google's quarantine do indeed already have the > Delivered-To header prior to delivery. Their suggestion to me was > that I turn off the D flag to avoid this problem. Was that supposed to be Postfix advice? It sounds like it might be a reference to the "flags" setting under COMMAND ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX in the Postfix pipe(8) manual. However, nothing posted upthread seems to indicate that you are actually using pipe. Changing pipe settings won't work if you are using some other delivery agent. local(8) and virtual(8) have no "flags". > How do I turn off the D flag? What is this "D flag"? Perhaps you need to go back to the one who made the suggestion to you. I would suggest that you start over with non-verbose logs (and perhaps mail headers) which illustrate the problem, and current "postconf -n" output. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
