[ale] Postfix bouncing emails...

Benjamin Scherrey scherrey at proteus-tech.com
Tue Aug 31 15:23:46 EDT 2004


Chris -

	Yes - it turns out my provider made some kinda DNS change that my $mydestination 
value was dependent on. I widened its scope and now its back and running. That was a very 
misleading error message however.

	-- Ben Scherrey

8/31/2004 9:37:43 AM, Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Proteus Guy wrote:
>
>> My virtual server was recently reset by my provider
>> and, since then, has started bouncing emails like
>> crazy. Attached is a copy of the end of my
>> /var/log/maillog file which complains that the "best
>> MX record for www.proteus-tech.com is local" and loops
>> back to itself. Something is wrong with my postfix
>> config I guess but I don't know what. Any ideas on how
>> to address this? I've turned off postfix for now so my
>> easydns will cache my email until this is fixed but,
>> for now, I'm hosed.
>
>Most likely, check that
>
>myhostname
>mydestination
>
>are correct in main.cf
>
>later,
>chris
>





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