Hi On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:30:21 +0000 bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm using postfix in kmail to send mail, as you can see from the quoted > headers whenever postfix has a problem sending mail it mails me a message, > which is fine except it is mailing the person who the message is from and > that is of course my email address so the warning message goes out in to the > world and back again, this is waste of bandwith and resources and feel i > should fix this Do this:- Create a text file /etc/recipient_canonical Put a one line entry in like this your_address@kmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] e.g. I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] this way if anything is written to my external email address it ges mapped to my internal one. then put this line in /etc/postfix/main.cf recipient_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_canonical then do this /usr/sbin/postmaps /etc/postfix/recipient_canonical then do this /usr/sbin/postfix/reload and thats it! Good luck :) -- O Dave Naylor <|> [---] http://www.knocker.uklinux.net
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