[TriLUG] POSTFIX: How to fix source seen as localhost.localdomain

[Tarus Balog]

bp said:
> In main.cf, I've set the following options:
>   myhostname = itchy.kicks-ass.org
>   mydomain = itchy.kicks-ass.org
>   myorigin = itchy.kicks-ass.org
> In /etc/hosts
>    localhost.localdomain is a middle alias, the first is my full domain
> name.
> /etc/sysconfig/network has no refs to localhost
>
> Mail sends just fine, and I recieve mail from the outside just fine.
> But some savvy mail servers like cox.net & unc.edu deny messages because
>  they appear from root at localhost.localdomain and of course
> localhost.localdomain doesn't exist as their error message claims.   Any
>  mail cmd messages or mail genereated from Postnuke behaves like this.
> Where do I fix it so that messages are written from
> root at itchy.kicks-ass.org?

Try setting

inet_interfaces = itchy.kicks-ass.org

in main.cf, and then stop and restart postfix.

You may also want to include a specific entry in /etc/hosts

68.18.0.133  itchy.kicks-ass.org

-T

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