Re: [Hampshire] [Software] Postfix Configuration Problem

Nick Chalk wrote:

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>>> What do you have myhostname, myorigin, and
>>> mydestination set to in main.cf?
>>>
>> myhostname = mail.funkygibbins.me.uk
>> myorigin = /etc/mailname ['cat /etc/mailname'
>> returns mail.funkygibbins.me.uk]
>> mydestination =
>>
>
> Eek! A blank mydestination isn't good - that means
> no mail will be delivered to the local machine
> that Postfix is running on. At the very least, you
> should have localhost, and probably the host's
> fully-qualified domain name.
Heh! Actually, there was a blank mydestination that appeared /after/ a properly configured one, and obviously negated it while at the same time failing to chuck out an error! However, without your advice I wouldn't have spotted and probably wouldn't have realised the significance if I had. Removing that restarting allowed all the locally sent mail to be delivered.

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Thanks very much for that advice Nick, and I will take your other comments into account when it comes to making a decision about where my mail is hosted and how it is retrieved and sent.

Sean