[Gllug] FQDN for local mail relay?

[Mike Brodbelt]

Garry Heaton wrote:

> 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' .

That shouldn't matter if the envelope sender and the EHLO host are
correct. You can capture the SMTP session on the server with tcpdump,
and then load the capture file into Ethereal/Wireshark on a workstation
to display it.

Mike
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