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Re: Mail is delivered locally rather than remotely

From: Noel Jones <njones_at_nospam>
Date: Fri Oct 14 2011 - 18:58:57 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org

On 10/14/2011 1:51 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> Messages are being sent to my machine rather than to my domain
> hoster's mail server.
> I.E. If I send a message to myself, it goes directly to
> /var/mail/<user>, rather than to the mailbox at my domain hoster.

Sounds as if you set mydestination incorrectly.
Please see http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html

If you need more help, please see:
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail

  -- Noel Jones