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March 6, 2003 at 12:06 AM
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Postfix loop back problem

by webmaster . Updated 23 years, 2 months ago

Ok, i have a webserver that dishes out the pages for the website. I have another server that is my mail server. The mail server is on windows nt 4, running mdaemon. The webserver is running on linux with apache and all the other goodies. Anyway, Here is my problem.

I wrote a php script to subscribe people to a list that i have on the mail server. All you have to do to subscribe is send an email from your address with “subscribe ” in the body. So i wrote a php script that lets people enter thier email address in a form, php then writes an email from that address with the subscribe line in the body. Well, for this to work, i had to have an email server on the webserver to send that email to the mailserver. Well, i installed postfix and everything works great.

When i tell my script to email my yahoo account the subscriber’s email, it works great. (the email with subscribe in it). When i choose to email it to the list server (listserver@ocssaints.org), it doesnt work. Here is my postfix log.

/******* START LOG *******/
Mar 4 10:14:53 www postfix/cleanup[4189]: B287E135B6: message-id=<20030304151453.B287E135B6@www.ocssaints.org>
Mar 4 10:14:53 www postfix/qmgr[1250]: B287E135B6: from=, size=365, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar 4 10:14:53 www postfix/smtpd[4192]: connect from ocssaints.org[192.168.1.210]
Mar 4 10:14:53 www postfix/smtp[4191]: B287E135B6: to=, relay=ocssaints.org[192.168.1.210], delay=0, status=bounced (mail for ocssaints.org loops back to myself)
Mar 4 10:14:53 www postfix/smtpd[4192]: lost connection after EHLO from ocssaints.org[192.168.1.210]
Mar 4 10:14:53 www postfix/smtpd[4192]: disconnect from ocssaints.org[192.168.1.210]
/******* END LOG *******/

The problem is that my webserver is named www.ocssaints.org, and my mail server is mail.ocssaints.org. I think that is what is confusing postfix. It’

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