My needs are simple. I just need to be able to send email from any host on the
local network to postfix/dovecot on a Mac Mini server so that an IMAP client
can receive and access the mail and since dovecot is using maildir, it does not
see unix mail.
Postfix has been installed on the Mini for several years and I can send a
message from e.g MacOS Mail.app on my Mac Pro to user@home and receive it in
that account (also configured in same Mail.app). I wanted to be able to
eliminate the @… completely, but Apple, in their infinite wisdom DO NOT ALLOW
the use of an email address without an @, in some misguided belief it cannot
therefore be a valid address. Idiots.
Anyway, using @home is acceptable and works from both the Mac Pro and a debian
linux machine (and probably others) on the LAN. The problem however is that I
simply cannot get email on the Mini Server itself to work. So, as I said, email
to user@home works from other hosts on the LAN, but if I try to send using
(postfix)sendmail on the Mini itself. it bounces:-
status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
name=home type=AAAA: Host not found)
What I don't understand here is why postfix is trying to lookup 'home'. It is
configured to accept mail in the 'home' domain and happily does so from any
other host on the LAN, but why not on the Mini that's actually running postfix?
Suggestions?
Ken G i l l e t t
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