From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 13 1: 0:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A3415086 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 01:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kzentner@u.washington.edu) Received: from dante41.u.washington.edu (kzentner@dante41.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.201]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id BAA13344 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 01:00:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (kzentner@localhost) by dante41.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id BAA98120 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 01:00:27 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 01:00:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Kristopher Zentner To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with delivery to localhost Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I realize that this isn't totally a FreeBSD problem but I figured this would be a good place to start. I'm running stable, and have run into the problem of my smtp servers not recognizing localhost. I've switched from sendmail to postfix which offers much easier configuration with the same results. I'm assuming this is not related to the mta but I could be wrong. Fetchmail basically can't deliver my mail to me and tell me this: fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO: fetchmail: SMTP< 550 ... User unknown fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address `darxpryte@localhost' I also notice that mail to darxpryte@localhost goes to the net where it bounces because obviously there's nothing out there named localhost. I've made sure I have a line in my hosts file that includes: 127.0.0.1 localhost gabrielle I know that postfix uses "mydestination" to tell my machine what domains to deliver locally. Here's what I have: mydestination = localhost, localhost.u.washington.edu, localhost.yi.org I'm using the hostname gabrielle.yi.org at the moment if that makes any difference. If I've missed anything please tell me. I realize that I've probably done something to cause this since it was working before, but I have no idea what it could have been at this point (the headache isn't helping much). Any help is greatly appreciated. Please send mail directly as I'm not subbed to this list. ========================================================================== Kristopher Zentner | "Would you tell me, please, which Aspiring Linguist | way I ought to go from here?" FreeBSD Advocate | "That depends a great deal on kzentner@u.washington.edu | where you want to go." said the Cat ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message