User unknown?

[Erik Norgaard]

Guillaume R. wrote:
> Re
> To be more accurate here is a trace that I can found in
> /var/mail/root. Seems to be a internal mail for my user (which never
> receive any mail...)
> 
> The original message was received at Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:34:32 +0100 (CET)
> from root at localhost
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> gnux
>     (reason: 550 5.1.1 <gnux at localhost.my.domain>... User unknown)
>     (expanded from: gnux)
> 
>  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to [127.0.0.1]:
>>>> DATA
> <<< 550 5.1.1 <gnux at localhost.my.domain>... User unknown
> 550 5.1.1 gnux... User unknown
> <<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
> 
> There is a lot of "mails" like that in this directory. Could anyone
> explain me why? Indeed I cant find anything in the handbook about this
> internal mailer daemon...

You should be able to find this in /var/log/maillog. Include the error 
message from the maillog.

Did you upgrade postfix when you moved from linux to freebsd? Maybe your 
configuration is no longer current and should be updated.

Cheers, Erik

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