Configure Postfix and email addresses

[Azwar]

Hi All,
I am new to Linux and Postfix and have recently had to rebuild our company's mail server. We run CentOS 4.5 and Postfix and I have managed to reconfigure the server os, dns * postfix etc and get the old accounts working fine but any new accounts i create add localhost to the email address before the domain name. E.g user@localhost.domain.com where it should be user@domain.com

I have checked the settings in the main.cf file and everything seems to be OK from what I can see. Any ideas on how to remove this localhost from the new accounts?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

[infoshirish]

Hi All,
I am new to Linux and Postfix and have recently had to rebuild our company's mail server. We run CentOS 4.5 and Postfix and I have managed to reconfigure the server os, dns * postfix etc and get the old accounts working fine but any new accounts i create add localhost to the email address before the domain name. E.g user@localhost.domain.com where it should be user@domain.com

I have checked the settings in the main.cf file and everything seems to be OK from what I can see. Any ideas on how to remove this localhost from the new accounts?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Hey,
By default postfix uses local machine name. You need to change to your domain name. Go to your /etc/postfix/main.cf
Replace parameter $myhostname to $mydomain (Your domain name) in the entire file.
For i.e
Code:

myorigin = $mydomain

Restart the service should work.

[Azwar]

HI infoshirish
Thanks for the info. I have checked that setting in the mai.cf file and it is already set to $mydomain. Strange

Here are the main settings for that file

myhostname = BSYDMX01.bytecan.com.au
mydomain = bytecan.com.au
myorigin = $mydomain
inet_interfaces = 192.168.8.1
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain

Can you see anything that would be causing this? As far as I can see it is setup correctly?

Thanks again