Re: [SLUG] Debian, Logcheck and Postfix (oh my!)

From: Smitty (76543a@mpinet.net)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 18:27:10 EDT


Would you not have to put mars.lan under another account with a different IP
address?
Smitty

On Sunday 10 June 2001 15:48, you wrote:
> In Debian 2.2, logcheck is configured out of the box to mail reports to
> root every hour. I'm using Postfix for my MTA. Here's what's happening:
>
> logcheck mails its report to root, which is translated into
> root@quillandmouse.com. On my local lan, the domain is mars.lan, but I
> get my email from my ISP at quillandmouse.com. So the "root" address is
> being rewritten as root@quillandmouse.com. So what happens is that
> Postfix sends this out to my ISP. On my domain at my ISP, any mail not
> to a known addressee at quillandmouse.com gets forwarded to me. So I get
> all these hourly messages when I fetch mail for paulf@quillandmouse.com.
>
> I don't mind getting the messages, but they're going all the way to my
> ISP and then back down, when they should really just be locally mailed
> to me.
>
> But here's what makes it worse: My ISP won't accept any mail from anyone
> at mars.lan. It insists mail going to it has the quillandmouse.com
> domain on it. So I've had to make nearly everything in postfix so that
> it has quillandmouse.com on the end of it. I'm just not sure what to
> change so that mail for local delivery (like from root) gets delivered
> _locally_.
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Paul



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