[sdnog] mail error : "loops back to myself " when using hostname as MX

Philip Paeps philip at trouble.is
Wed Oct 26 18:00:26 SAST 2016


On 2016-10-26 18:27:01 (+0300), Manhal Mohammed 
<manhal_muhamed at hotmail.com> wrote:
> error : mail for example.com loops back to myself
>
> DNS configuration  :
>
> MX       mnhl.server

Don't forget the terminating '.'...

> PS  : i didn't touch the postfix configuration file

You'll have to add mnhl.server to $mydestination in your postfix.conf
if you don't want mail to loop.

Philip


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Philip Paeps
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