Re: Postfix upgrade frustration
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 <rhogee@localhost> which postfix expands to
> <rhogee@localhost.qc.dfo.ca>. 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
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