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From: Bill Cole (no email)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 12:14:14 EDT
Juan Miscaro wrote:
> 2008/9/25 Brian Evans - Postfix List <>:
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>> The Problem the OP appears to fall into is that mail coming from outside
>> the mynetworks is being trapped to do a "local" DNS MX/A record.
>> It is probably pointing mail to the "example.com" as 127.0.0.1 (not
>> uncommon).
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> It points mail for the domain to the local server's FQDN. And that
> translates to localhost because of entries in /etc/hosts.
Don't map your FQDN to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. Your FQDN should
resolve to your primary non-loopback IP address.
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