[CentOS] postfix problem since update: mail loops back to myself

Fri Sep 22 11:57:40 UTC 2006
David Hrbáč <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz>

thorsten napsal(a):
> Hello
> 
> I already asked in the IRC, but apart from recommendations reading the
> mailing lists, nobody could help me. I read all postfix-update related
> articles but non of them seemed to match or resolve my problem:
> 
> Everything works fine, apart from one host, which we are doing MX
> backups for (backupdomain.com):
> 
> Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/smtp[18784]: 6BD7B1189E4:
> to=<user at backupdomain.com>, relay=none, delay=53, status=bounced (mail
> for backupdomain.com loops back to myself)
> Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/cleanup[18791]: B3DD6118A13:
> message-id=<20060922111858.B3DD6118A13 at mail.mydomain.com>
> Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/qmgr[18776]: B3DD6118A13: from=<>,
> size=2758, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/qmgr[18776]: 6BD7B1189E4: removed
> 
> The backup MX in our domain record for the backupdomain has priority 20,
> we 10.
> 
> dig MX mydomain.com
> 
> mydomain.com.         86400   IN      MX      20 mail.backupdomain.com.
> mydomain.com.         86400   IN      MX      10 mail.mydomain.com.
> 
> 
> postfix's transport_map is configured to use mysql. a
> 
> postmap -q backupdomain.com mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/transport
> returns:
> smtp:mail.backupdomain.com
> 
> so it was forwarding a message to that domain. That worked fine.
> 
> After the postfix upgrade, this stopped working. The target the error, I
> removed the smtp:mail.backupdomain.com entry from the mysql table and
> also removed the MX entry for the backupdomain, which I was told, could
> cause problems as well.
> 
> It still says: mail for backupdomain.com loops back to myself.
> 
> So, I am wondering, where postfix gets this information from? Can you
> give me some further advise?
> 
> thx,
>  thorsten.

Thorsten,
send postfix/mysql configuration files. Majority of mysql+postfix howtos
is broken and copied from one source. So send the configs.
David