[Workaround.org] hyphen in domain causing postfix to eroneously attempt local delivery?

Christoph Haas email at christoph-haas.de
Thu Aug 14 21:30:41 CEST 2008


Hi, Clayton...

On Donnerstag, 14. August 2008, Clayton wrote:
> I am working my way through the process of setting up my first serious
> e-mail server using http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/
>
> Everything was going great until I added a domain name that contains a
> hyphen, which fails for some strange reasons.

Strange.

> ie. when I send an e-mail from my local unix account ckoen to
> boss at armor-mail.com, it tries to deliver it locally and fails because
> there is no "boss" unix account.

Please run "postconf mydestination" and see if you accidentally 
defined "armor-mail.com" as a local domain.

Cheers
 Christoph
-- 
When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
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