[Gllug] How to supress all those "localhost.localdomain"s in mail

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 22 Jan, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> 
> Would this work with a single box on the domain environment? ie I have a
> box which is hosting the www.somedomain.com and also is the mailserver for
> somedomain.com. Apache and sendmail communicate over loopback and so
> apache always looks like it is on 127.0.0.1
> 
> Changing /etc/hosts so that the first bit of the entry for 127.0.0.1 is
> your domain gets rid of the localhost.localdomain thing but can lead to
> some equally odd things in headers (as an examination of this message's
> headers will show)
> 
> 
   As far as I can figure any machine (or virtual machine) can be called
anything relevant to a domain you are hosting as long as there is a DNS
pointer to find it, and CNAME reference if required, (although I am only
running a single domain, which means I have no other complications). I
decided to try this as a means to get a satisfactory "helo=" response, and
it will carry on working like this until I find a better method. There
probably are better methods, this was relatively easy.

-- 
Chris Bell

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