Joel, This has happened to one of our clients, it seems that their isp was resolving mydomain.com to 127.0.0.1. To confirm this, you can try 'dig mx mydomain.com @[ip of your isp's dns].
If that is the case, notify your ISP. HTH! Lawrence On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:55, Kenneth Oncinian wrote: > Joel, > Normally, when an smtp server replied to a HELO/EHLO query of an another > smtp with the same hostname, you get mail loop. > > Also, provide some logs please, specially on the mail looping part. > > regards, > Kenneth > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi to All, > > > > I keep getting warning/errors on my maillog stating "mail for mydomain.com > > loops back to myself" the mail server is behind a router doing nat: > > > > internet <---> router/nat <--->mail server (private IP) > > > > The wan interface of the router has an MX record defined on our internet > > provider and resolves properly. I also configured port forwarding on the > > router to forward requests on port 110 and 25 to my mail server. > > > > Every email that I send to a domain other than my own domain bounces back with > > an error "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: mail for mydomain.com loops back to myself" > > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > joel > > > > > > > > -- > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > > .. > > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > > .. > > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
