Re: .forward loops (long)

Subject: Re: .forward loops (long)
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 13:31:25 CST

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Here's the explanation.

The .forward file specifies a bare username. This is equivalent to
user$myorigin. On your machine, myorigin != mydestination, so
Postfix forwards the mail (and later finds a virtual map entry that
redirecs the mail to usermyhostname).

This will be fixed when I have unified the routing/virtual table,
and when trivial-rewrite does all address rewriting.

Workaround: if myorigin != mydestination, specify usermyhostname
in the .forward file.

        Wietse

Liviu Daia:
> Ok, second try, in a naive attempt somebody will actually try to
> understand my babbling this time.
>
> To recap: writing
>
> username
>
> in ~username/.forward results in bounced messages because of "mail
> forwarding loop for usernameaddres". I'm attaching the logs from
> "local -v" (bare with me, it gets interesting after about 80 lines).

logs deleted.

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