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Asked: 2014-02-26 16:01:34 +0800 CST

Citadel 550 Invalid recipient

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I tried to install citadel on a debian squeeze machine.

So far, what I've done is :

  1. install citadel from the repo
  2. create a user testuser & assign it the address [email protected]

  3. Add 2 mx record to cloudflare

    3a. mail.mydomain.com 1.2.3.4

    3b. MX : mydomain.com mail.mydomain.com 40

  4. edit my /etc/hosts file, and add myIP mydomain.com\n myIP mail.mydomain.com

Then, I can send an email to my gmail account , and I can see in the recipient from : [email protected]

However, when sending an email from my gmail account to [email protected], I've got this error message: 

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

   [email protected]

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain     mydomain.com by mail.mydomain.com. [1.2.3.4].

The error that the other server returned was:
550 Invalid recipient: testusermydomain.com

Not that the '@' disapeared : testusermydomain.com instead of [email protected]

When I try to send an email to [email protected], I've got a different error message : 

The error that the other server returned was:
551 <[email protected]> - relaying denied

I am relatively new to the mail server setup process, and I chosoe citadel for its simplicity. Does anyone got any idea about what is going wrong?

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1 Answers

  1. Following the intruction on this link made the setup work correctly.

    http://www.ducky-pond.com/posts/2012/Jul/installing-citadel-on-rpi/

    sudo mkdir /etc/citadel/netconfigs
sudo chown citadel:citadel /etc/citadel/netconfigs
sudo service citadel restart


sudo /usr/lib/citadel-server/setup

    Then you will need to edit /etc/init.d/webcit, and put this just after #/bin/sh (If it is missing)

    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:  webcit
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start daemon at boot time
# Description: Enable service provided by daemon.
### END INIT INFO
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