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

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 18:15:47 EDT


On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:37:06AM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:

> Paul M Foster 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:
>
> Without being familiar with Postfix, I'd recommend that the place to
> look for is to tell your mail server to accept mail for the
> "quillandmouse.com" domain. Hopefully that would allow it to just
> accept mail sent to "root@quillandmouse.com" and stop trying to forward
> it on.
>

My ISP's mailserver _does_ accept mail from/for quillandmouse.com. The
problem seems to be that mail sent to any "unqualified" address (like
root, paulf) gets "@quillandmouse.com" added to it locally. And
therefore goes out to the ISP instead of delivering locally.

Paul



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