First let me state that I'm sure this is a rather stupid question, but I was
stumped by it for a bit. If this is covered in a HOWTO or other document
somewhere, please feel free to refer me to said document.
I've been attempting to setup a qmail server for a short time now. I've
looked at several different sources of documentation and each of them seem
to have a different manner of going about the setup. For right now, I'm not
overly concerned with all the nifty optional items. I would much rather get
a simple qmail install up and running and then look into tweaking it to my
needs.
As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every
test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I
could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to
the addresses. For example if I addressed a message to "user@system" the
bounce message would show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I only have three control
files at the moment: me, locals, and rcpthosts. All of these files have the
same information in them. Originally this entry was "system". However in
order to stop qmail from repeating I had to change this to "system.".
Can someone explain why this was necessary? I feel that if I understand
this, it will help with future delivery problems.
Jamin W. Collins
