[PLUG] cannot receive mail locally

[Greg Long]

...even from another user on the same domain.

If you followed the "Changing hardware but keeping system intact"
thread, I should start off with saying I was successfully able to copy
all over to the new hard drive, and then reinstall Redhat 7.2 on the
existing system (install, not an upgrade, all packages, formatting only
the /boot and /swap partitions).

I had to modify /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME setting from
localhost.localdomain to eagle.maneuveringspeed.com.  I rebooted (easier
than stopping and restarting individual services).

All users appear present and accounted for, I can su with ease, and
Apache, the mailman interface, vncserver, and basically everything works
as far as I can tell with the exception of mail:

local users cannot receive anything - even from local users.  Mail sends
just fine to other domains.  Thinking it might be a postfix problem, I
tried the fix posted earlier today in the PLUG mailing list.  Still no
go.  I su'ed to one user, and sent mail to another user on the same
system with PINE.  Still no go.  Mail sent from other domains bounces.
Root seems to wind up with the bounces sent from local users (see below)

To further explain:  "postfixer" is a user account I used for the
postfix mailing list.  It's not created by postfix or anything else.  I
run mail through spamassassin and anomy sanitizer.  Since mail runs
through these excellent tools and out to other domains, it seems quite
unlikely they are the culprit.  I *am* wondering where
"filter at localhost" comes from since I modified the hostname as mentioned
above.

I am, of course, running on the original maneuveringspeed box now.

Suggestions?  When this is all done, I'll draw up some formal document
and add this to the knowledge base!

---Greg

	The original message was received at Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:10:32
-0800
from filter at localhost

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
greg at maneuveringspeed.com
    (reason: 554 5.4.6 Too many hops)

   ----- Transcripton follows -----
554 5.4.6 Too many hops 27 (25 max): from postfixer at maneuveringspeed.com
via localhost, to 
greg at maneuveringspe--MIMEStream=_2+157852_0381259182373_38977098909
Content-Type:  dns; eagle.maneuveringspeed.com
Arrival-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:10:32 -0800

Final-Recipient: RFC822;82.6/8.11.6) id g9VLAQw02740
	for greg at maneuveringspeed.com; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:10:26 -0800
X-Authentication-Warning: eagle.maneuveringspeed.com: filter set sender
to 
postfixer at maneuveringspeed.com using -f
Received: from eagle.maneuveringspeed.com (unknown [192.168.1.1])
	by maneuveringspeed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3F650071
	for <greg at maneuveringspeed.com>; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:10:20 -0800
(PST)
Received: (from filter at localhost)
	by eagle.maneuveringspeed.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9VLAJN02730
	for greg at maneuveringspeed.com; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:10:19 -0800
X-Authentication-Warning: eagle.maneuveringspeed.com: filter set sender
to 
postfixer at maneuveringspeed.com using -f
Received: from eagle.maneuveringspeed.com (unknown [192.168.1.1])
	by maneuveringspeed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB90D50071
	for <greg at maneuveringspeed.com>; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:10:13 -0800
(PST)
Received: (from filter at localhost)
	by eagle.maneuveringspeed.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9VLADQ02720
	for greg at maneuveringspeed.com; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:10:13 -0800
X-Authentication-Warning: eagle.maneuveringspeed.com: filter set sender
to 


...............and it goes on for I imagine 25 hops.