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Error: Postfix - mail for example.com loops back to myself

You see the following error in your mail log:

Feb 24 21:42:42 mail postfix/smtp[1911]: 8172723F60: to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (mail for example.com loops back to myself)

 

Solution

Please add example.com to the mydestination line in /etc/postfix/main.cf and restart Postfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart
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By: makez
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It worked!

By: [email protected]
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I have same error but it already has my domail in /etc/postfix/main.cf

 mydestination = holmtek-research-ltd.uk, localhost, localhost.localdomain

By: Wajdi Jurry
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Works as charm! Thank you :)

By: Bernardo
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So this means I should be adding gmail.com, hotmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com, icloud.com, whatever_other_domain_imaginable.com to my configuration ?????

By: till
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No, this does not mean that. You just add your own domain name there, not recipient domains.