Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Frederik Vos <fvos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 18:03, Örn Hansen wrote:
>  SuSE uses postfix, as default and in SUSE 8.2 setting it up to receive email 
> was quite simple and easy.  With 9.0 it's impossible.
> 
>   First, I've got the setup that my machine is behind a broadband router.  
> Beyond the router, the router is known as virtual.foobar.org.  The mail is 
> redirected to the machine on the inside, mail.virtual.foobar.org.  On the 
> intranet, virtual.foobar.org is referring to the intranet.  And now, here 
> comes postfixes neat setup.  Whenever it receives email, it tries to relay 
> this email to virtual.foobar.org, even though this is specified as mydomain, 
> and mydestination.  The realy of course fails, because postfix doesn't look 
> for virtual.foobar.org in the /etc/hosts file, but does a direct dns lookup 
> (pfft).  Now, setting relaydomains to "", gets postfix to try and locate 
> localhost.  But, hold your horses, its trying to locate localhost as a relay 
> host! and it's trying to locate it via DNS.
> 
>   Now, I don't really care if you can setup options to fix this ... this 
> "handling" of the email is stupid.  It's so stupid, that this mail delivery 
> agent can't really be a well programmed stuff.   Or, SUSE's version is so 
> buggy it's hilarious.  And I'll tell you why: UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD 
> DNS TAKE PRECEDANCE OVER HOSTS, EVER.  Unless it's specified in the 
> nsswitch.conf, which it isn't and postfix is bypassing the local operating 
> system setup.  And *that* boys, reminds me of WINDOZE.
> 

if dns resolution is not available or you are using 'non-existed'
host/domainnames:
disable_dns_lookups=yes

and this reminds me of Windows users who never read the manual
-- 
Frederik Vos <fvos@xxxxxxxxxx>
VosBerg@SuSE & L4L