[Techtalk] postfix

[Maria McKinley]

On 8/12/11 2:25 PM, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Thought I'd see if anyone here had a clue about this before subscribing
> to the postfix mailing list. In my /etc/postfix/main.cf I have the
> following configuration:
>
> # identity
> myhostname = smtp.shadlen.org
> mydomain = shadlen.org
> myorigin = $mydomain
>
> But if I check postconf or use a web mail client, postfix does not
> appear to be using my configuration:
>
> ella:~# postconf -c /etc/postfix -d myorigin
> myorigin = $myhostname
> ella:~# postconf -c /etc/postfix -d myhostname
> myhostname = ella.localdomain
>
> Why is myorigin showing up as myhostname instead of what I have clearly
> configured to be mydomain? And myhostname seems to be coming out of the
> blue as well. Makes no sense! And yes, that is the only myorigin in the
> config file, and I have restarted postfix to make sure it loads the
> main.cf I am reading.
>
> thanks,
> maria

Okay, looking at random examples on the web instead of looking at the 
man page can give bad results. The -d option gives the default instead 
of the actual config, so postconf is doing the right thing:

ella:~# postconf myorigin
myorigin = $mydomain
ella:~# postconf mydomain
mydomain = shadlen.org

But, for some reason squirrelmail and roundcube default to 
ella.shadlen.org instead of shadlen.org for the origin. Any idea why 
this might be?

thanks,
maria