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----- Forwarded message from Alan McConnell <alan> -----

Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:56:46 -0400
From: Alan McConnell <alan>
Subject: Local E-mails don't go through!
To: postfix-userscloud9.net

Greetings!

I have been running postfix for two days, on my home Linux box, with a
dial-up connection to my ISP(I dial-up several times a day, and get a
dynamic IP address). This is a new machine I've treated myself to,
and my install was Mandrake, if that matters.

My problem in short: postfix sends out my E-mail to furthest Cathay,
but E-mail locally, within my own machine(for instance, from 'alan'
to 'alan1', a Test Account) is not delivered. This has got to be
a FAQ, but I've read the faq and can't find the solution there, so
I'm hoping some kind reader here will put me out of my misery . . .

I did minimal configuring of postfix; for instance, I put
        root: alan
in /etc/postfix/aliases. I changed /etc/postfix/main.cf in the
following ways:
        myhostname = alanmcc # which is what it is in my
                               # /etc/sysconfig/network

        mydomain = patriot.net

        myorigin = $mydomain

These are guesses, plus suggestions from a friendly sysadmin at
my ISP PatriotNet.

Perhaps I should mention that I pull down my E-mail from patriot.net
using fetchmail. This works like a charm.

In the faq I could find only a short paragraph on "stand-alone
machine" . . . perhaps I'm missing something . . .

All help gratefully accepted!

Happy Fourth to all USAns!

Alan

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