[Gllug] FQDN for local mail relay?

[Andy McGarty]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:21:37 -0000, Garry Heaton  
<garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> I've just setup an office mailserver using CentOS 4.3, Postfix, Dovecot,
> Fetchmail and SAMBA. The server has the address 192.168.1.254 and the
> hostname format is 'robinson.local'. The server is configured to relay  
> outbound
> mail to BT's mailserver using Postfix's 'relayhost' setting but although  
> the
> Postfix logs show everything relayed to BT successfully with 250 some  
> test
> emails have yet to arrive after 5 hours and I'm wondering whether using  
> the
> hostname format '<machine_name>.local' is giving mailservers cause for
> concern. Is this a FQDN issue? The company has a domain but isn't using  
> it
> to host it's own public mailserver, opting for Fetchmail retrieval  
> combined
> with a local IMAP server, Dovecot.
>
snip

Are the mails going out with a source (from) BT address or your company  
address?

If they are not BT then BT probably won't deliver them, thinking they are  
spam.

I would change your config to not use BT's mail relay, but deliver  
directly.

Andy

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