On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 05:28:28AM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 01:05:43AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 04:42:01AM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:58:17PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > > > > > > > I used fetchmail to retreive email from the university and it hands off > > > > the local system which cause the mail to try to be forward to > > > > localhost.com. Obviously I've made a big error somewhere, but I can't > > > > track it down > > > > > > Your mistake is misusing "localhost.com". That's someone else's > > > domain. Do set "mydomain" explicitly to something sensible in > > > main.cf. > > > > mydomain is not set to anything at the moment in main.cf > > All comments that refer to mydomain are commented out > > I'm asking you to set it "explicitly". > > > It is certainly not set up to localhost.com > > No, it ends defaulting to "com". If you set it explicitly, > the problem will go away. >
Ah - thank you. I thought you ment that, but I was being dense. When I ran fetchmail through verbose I saw that it connected to localhost on port 25 so I figured that maybe postfix was attaching a .com to that. I just wanted to make double sure that I understood what I thought you said was exactly what you ment. > > Should I set it? How does that change my otherwise working > > configuration which handles mail for 4 domains. > > I thought that's what I said. :) well, we people from brooklyn sometimes need to be told twice. Thank you for your effort and time. Ruben > > -- > Viktor. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
