On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 09:11:25AM +0100, Ken Gillett via Postfix-users wrote:
> 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.
They're not "idiots". Email addresses do need a domain part to have any
cross-system semantics. With a domainless address in the headers of a
message, replies may go astray, ... The world of isolated
mini-computers ended in the 1970s if not earlier.
> 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?
Post logs for a *successful* email transaction addressed to "@home".
Include all the logs for that queue id (smtpd, cleanup, qmgr, and the
final delivery agent).
Similarly, post all the logs for the failure case.
--
Viktor.
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