[Gllug] FQDN for local mail relay?

[Garry Heaton]

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Tue 19 Dec, Garry Heaton wrote:
> 
>> Which "From:" header are you suggesting needs rewriting? 
>> 'robinsonengineers.co.uk' is a legit domain and is hosted for the
>> company by BT, the same company accepting the relay. OK, we're not
>> using it for the server's hostname but it's certainly legit for
>> delivery.
>> 
>> ******************************************************************* 
>> Received: from robinson.local
>> (host217-36-210-11.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.36.210.11]) by
>> c2bthomr07.btconnect.com with ESMTP id BNR56131; Mon, 18 Dec 2006
>> 16:45:13 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (laptop [192.168.1.4]) by
>> robinson.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955721F7C159 for
>> <garry at usableit.co.uk>; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:54:04 +0000 (GMT) 
>> Message-ID: <4586CB75.6020007 at robinsonengineers.co.uk> Date: Mon, 18
>> Dec 2006 17:10:13 +0000 From: Mark Robinson
>> <mark.robinson at robinsonengineers.co.uk> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8
>> (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: garry at usableit.co.uk Subject:
>> Hi from Mark Robinson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;
>> format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-me-spamlevel: not-spam 
>> X-me-spamrating: 59.531199 
>> *********************************************************************
>> 
>> Garry
> 
> It could be the first line shown that is causing any problem, I had to 
> adjust my local DNS and hostname settings for my mailserver to stop it 
> causing problems.
> 
That's what I've done now, at least within Postfix.

$myhostname: mail.robinsonengineers.co.uk
$mydomain: robinsonengineers.co.uk

It clears up the last hop between the local mailserver and BT but some of
the earlier headers still refer to the machine's hostname 'robinson.local' .

Garry
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