Timothy Murphy: > How does postfix define local recipients? > I'm getting this error in /var/log/maillog > > Jun 10 20:25:14 helen postfix/smtp[6867]: 9C2A081968: > to=<gayle...@eircom.net>, orig_to=<r...@helen.gayleard.com>, > relay=mail.eircom.net[159.134.198.135]:25, delay=8696, > delays=8682/0.06/3.1/10, dsn=4.1.0, status=deferred > (host mail.eircom.net[159.134.198.135] said: > 452 4.1.0 <r...@helen.gayleard.com> > MAIL FROM domain does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) > > Here helen.gayleard.com is the internal name of my server > (on which postfix and dovecot are running), > while mail.eircom.net is my smarthost. > The mail is from the abrt server, regarding an error in firefox. > > But my question is: why is helen.gayleard.com not recognized > as a local address?
Local destinations are specified with the mydestination parameter. See http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html for a gentle introduction. Wietse