I wrote: > Tracking woody upgraded postfix today, and its postinst went > right into reconfiguration (asking me what kind of email site I > was running, etc) and broke my setup. > > I can't seem to tweak it correctly. > > I send email directly but retrieve through a POP server (I'm > behind a firewall so incoming connections can't reach me). > > When I send email, it seems to go okay. But when I fetch email > from the POP server via fetchmail, fetchmail attempts a delivery > to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which postfix expands to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This doesn't exist and it bounces > the mail! > > The only lines with qc.dfo.ca I have in /etc/postfix/main.cf are: > > myhostname = mixing.qc.dfo.ca > myorigin = mixing.qc.dfo.ca > mydestination = mixing.qc.dfo.ca, localhost, mixing
I worked around the problem by adding localhost.qc.dfo.ca to mydestination. But it's a kludge. I don't know why it's needed. Peter
