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Re: Newbie need help to solve loop back issue

From: Alex van den Bogaerdt (alexergens.op.het.net)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 16:02:10 CDT


On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:31:16PM -0400, yangchen wrote:
> I'm new to postfix and I am trying to configure postfix and TrendMicro's
> ISS working on one Linux server. I got a "loops back to myself" error
> when I sent a message to my postfix server. I searched the Internet for
> solutions and found the following related info in the mail list. I know
> the reason why I got the error. But I don't know how to fix it. Mr. Max
> Clark didn't mentioned how he fixed his problem. Can any one help me
> out? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Ralf said:

>Postfix thinks it's connecting to itself, because of the greeting it
>gets on the reinjection port.

See "smtpd_banner" in the manual page for the smtp daemon.

You have to change this parameter in master.cf for the reinjection port
(the extra smtpd). It is in the docs... somewhere...

cheers,
Alex