[Mailman-Users] host.domain.tld vs. domain.tld

[Mark Sapiro]

David Newman wrote:

>On 1/15/10 7:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> 
>> My guess is that on the old server, domain.tld was in Postfix's
>> mydestination so that address at domain.tld was a local address and only
>> referred to alias_maps and not virtual_alias_maps, whereas on the new
>> server domain.tld is a virtual_mailbox_domain, thus postfix is looking
>> in virtual_mailbox_maps for address at domain.tld and not finding it..
>
>Curiouser and curiouser.
>
>First, thanks, this provided a clue for a fix.
>
>Second, both old and new servers used the same postfix main.cf and
>master.cf files. Both main.cf files had this line:
>
>mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
>
>which shouldn't have worked since (1) $mydomain wasn't defined anywhere
>and (2) domain.tld wasn't invoked and (3) mail never was addressed to
>localhost.$mydomain.


mydomain defaults to myhostname minus the first component. E.g.,

myhostname = mail.example.com => mydomain = example.com.

myhostname has a default which is the value returned by gethostname()
or `uname -n`


>On the new server I changed this to:
>
>mydomain = domain.tld
>mydestination = $myhostname, $mydomain, localhost


You still probably want localhost at local_domain in mydestination however
local_domain is determined because sooner or later some program
somewhere on your server will mail to that domain.


>and now list mail goes to either <listname>@mail.domain.tld or
><listname>domain.tld, as desired.
>
>Puzzling, but thanks again.


Was myhostname different on the old server?

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