Re: postfix bouncing

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:08:35PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> | I am trying to send mail to a localhost installation of postfix.
> ...
> | Mail is rejected at the localhost smtp server with the following 
> | in /var/log/mail.log:
> ...
> |  (Name service error for tacocat.net.sea.mail.core.tacocat.net: 
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | Host not found)
> ...
> | From this same box, I can do 'dig mx tacocat.net' and get a response.
>
> Try looking for tacocat.net.sea.mail.core.tacocat.net instead of
> tacocat.net.  I suspect your problem lies in how you configured
> postfix because it shouldn't be looking for that really long name.
>
> -D

I finally found this problem to be because there was a line in the 
postfix /etc/postfix/main.cf file which implimented a non-existent 
 transports file.
I don't know how this file got referenced.  I hardle expect it was 
the fault of the installation (deb maintainer) as others have gone 
quite well before and since.



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