> In addition (again thanks to Charles) you could try adding system.system to
> your locals file.
No. Don't do that. It's a completely bogus solution. Better to understand what you
want to do and use the configuration appropriately. For example, consider:
defaultdomain, plusdomain and the like. A read of the qmail-control man page is
a good place to start.
Regards.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Qmail repeating system name in address
>
>
> > Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >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.
> >
> > "me", "locals", and "rcpthosts" are supposed to be a fully qualified
> > domain names. E.g., hostname.domain.tld. SMTP and qmail both require
> > addresses to be fully qualified.
> >
> > -Dave
> >
>
