On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 07:32 -0500, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> On 6/4/2020 8:58 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > Fair enough, and I now understand the issues with root receiving and
> > > handling emails. The problem with the alias is that ALL emails are being
> > > sent out to my ISP, and on to the particular user.
> > Even for local users that are in /etc/passwd?
> Yes, I only have two local users, and email I send on the box ends up at
> the outside ISP, then comes back via fetchmail, and procmail. I can read
> it with IMAP from outside. I guess I'll live with this.
So even if you do something like
mail chuck
at the command line (with whatever user has a local account) it still
gets sent to the ISP?
> I'm sure it is the RelayHost or RelayDomains that forwards the email
> outbound to my ISP.
relay_host is the host that mail is sent to if it can't be delivered
elsewhere.
relay_domains is a list of domains the host will relay mail to.
> If I set up a local only account, those emails try
> to go outbound as well, but are rejected as there is no registered user
> of that name at my ISP.
In /etc/postfix/main.cf what is 'local_recipient_maps' set to? Also,
what about 'mydestination'
If you look in /var/log/maillog what does a message log for a local
user look like when sent using the mail command?
P.