Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 9/3/2012 3:20 PM, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> The weirdest thing happened today with postfix when upgrading our mail
> relay from Lenny to Squeeze. My main.cf has a mynetworks directive
> specifying which servers can relay without authenticating. It looked like this:
> 
> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
>                       x.x.x.x
>                       x.x.x.x
>                       x.x.x.x
> 
> When I upgraded, things stopped working. After enabling smtpd debug,
> I found that the new postfix was matching only the first line of the directive.
> The previous postfix version was working flawlessly. When I changed this
> line to:
> 
> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 x.x.x.x x.x.x.x x.x.x.x x.x.x.x
> 
> things went back normal. The odd fact is that in the postfix manual it
> is stated
> that:
> 
> [0] - "Mynetworks - Specify a list of network addresses or network/netmask
> patterns, separated by commas and/or whitespace. Continue long lines by
> starting the next line with whitespace."
> 
> Did somebody have this problem? Is this behavior expected? Am I missing
> something here?

You likely had trailing white space after 127.0.0.0/8 which is not
allowed.  Did you check your postfix logs?

-- 
Stan