On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 03:35:13PM -0700, cybermass wrote: > If there is a postfix server that is configured to only accept and send > email to users in the same domain, say for example > j...@restricted.com can only send to another_u...@restricted.com, does this > mean that the client's email never hops through other servers or "hops"?
No it does not. The submission server accepting email from and to users in the single domain in question need not be the final store for the mailboxes of that domain, and may deliver the mail to the final mail-store via LMTP (remote non-SMTP hop) or via SMTP. -- Viktor.