[Wylug-help] SMTP problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 Nov 2011 Simon Greenwood wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2011 19:50, "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > About an hour ago I wrote to this list:
> >  I've been using postfix for a long time, using transport maps to
> >  separate
> > 
> > messages for LAN delivery and messages to go externally.  My transport
> 
> hash is
> 
> > based on
> > 
> > lydgate.net     local:
> > .lydgate.net    local:
> > lydgate.lan     local:
> > .lydgate.lan    local:
> > *       smtp:[mailhost.zen.co.uk]
> > .*      smtp:[mailhost.zen.co.uk]
> > 
> > Normally it works perfectly, but I need to send a message to a small
> 
> mailing
> 
> > list that I host, named creativestitching at lydgate.org.  The error message
> > makes it clear that it thinks creativestitching is a LAN recipient.
> > 
> > NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[192.168.0.103]: 550 5.1.1
> > <creativestitching at lydgate.org>: Recipient address rejected: User
> > unknown in local recipient table; from=<anne at lydgate.org>
> > to=<creativestitching at lydgate.org> proto=ESMTP helo=<tosh.lydgate.lan>
> > 
> > a)  Why is a lydgate.org address now being seen as local?
> > 
> > b) How can I change the transport map to avoid it?
> > 
> > Since then I realised that even if I set the mail transport to use
> > gmail's smtp, the messages still don't go out.  This seems to have
> > started yesterday evening.  As far as I can see, there have been no
> > CentOS 6 updates, according to the log, since October 31st (but I have
> > a niggling feeling that that's not true).  SELinux is disabled as is
> > the firewall on this box.
> > 
> > /etc/alternatives/mta points to sendmail.postfix.
> > 
> > I'm out of ideas of what to check.  For the moment I'm reduced to webmail
> 
> L-(
> 
> 
> What does the mail server resolve lydgate.org to? Also, check your virtual
> table.
> 
Sorry, I'm not sure what/how you want me to check.  Could you give me more 
precise instructions?  Thanks

Anne
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