We've recently installed Postfix 1.1.14 from the Suse distribution, and moved our e-mail services to it. The migration went very smoothly, except for one user, "medical". The home directory for this user contains a .forward file with the following contents: medical, williams

Per the documentation for "local", this should send a copy to "williams", and keep a copy in "medical"'s in box. Mail from outside is copied to "williams" as expected, but the copy to "medical"'s in box is bounced with a mail forwarding loop. It appears that "local" doesn't recognize that the user it's delivering to matches the "medical" name in the .forward file.

Possibly related is that the host is known by several names. It's true host name is "pdxlx01". In DNS it also has a CNAME of "mailhost". It accepts mail for these two host names under a variety of domain names for marketing reasons. Thus, if two of it's domain names are domain1.com and domain2.com, mail addressed to "medicalmailhost.domain1.com", "medicalmailhost.domain2.com", "medicalpdxlx01.domain1.com", "medicalpdxlx01.domain2.com", "medicaldomain1.com", and "medicaldomain2.com" should all go to the same box. There are no virtual domains, just a lot of ways to address the same boxes. The entry for "mydestinations" is:
        mydestination = hash:/etc/postfix/domain-names
and the domain-names file contains entries like:
        pdxlx01.domain1.com 1
        mailhost.domain1.com 1
        domain1.com 1
        pdxlx01.domain2.com 1
        mailhost.domain2.com 1
        domain2.com

The final wrinkle is that e-mail from inside the network, and at least some from outside the network to this ID go fine. The only known failure at the moment is e-mail generated from our website. The address it uses is legit ("medicaldomain1.com"), but we still see this failure. The reject message appears below. Domain names have been changed throughout for confidentiality reasons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

                                -Brian Martin

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Return-Path: <>
Delivered-To: sysadmindomain1.com
Received: by pdxlx01.domain1.com (Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386)) id 6C863A87; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:23:53 -0800 (PST)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:23:53 -0800 (PST)
From: MAILER-DAEMONdomain1.com (Mail Delivery System)
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
To: nobodydomain1.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="5BF7EA6D.1037165033/pdxlx01.domain1.com"
Message-ID: <20021113052353.6C863A87pdxlx01.domain1.com>
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=100.0 tests=MAILER_DAEMON,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05 version=2.41
X-Spam-Level: Status: U
X-Mozilla-Status: 8001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-UIDL: fko"!c'W!!ke(!!BSj"!

This is the Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386) program at host pdxlx01.domain1.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

The Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386) program

<medicaldomain1.com>: mail forwarding loop for medicaldomain1.com

Reporting-MTA: dns; pdxlx01.domain1.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:23:53 -0800 (PST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; medicaldomain1.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail forwarding loop for medicaldomain1.com

Received: from firewallo.domain1.com (www.domain1.com [177.6.4.24]) by pdxlx01.domain1.com (Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386)) with ESMTP id
5BF7EA6D for <medicalmailhost.domain1.com>; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:23:53 -0800 (PST)
Received: by firewallo.domain1.com (Postfix) id 3FC55182B36; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:23:53 -0800 (PST)
Delivered-To: medicaldomain1.com
Received: by firewallo.domain1.com (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 0BFBB182B25; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:23:53 -0800 (PST)
To: medicaldomain1.com
From: prsn78domain2.com
Subject: Mail from Website
Message-ID: <20021113052353.0BFBB182B25firewallo.domain1.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:23:53 -0800 (PST)

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