Postfix/Network config out of the box - was: Re: Please participate in the Ubuntu Popularity Contest !

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:28:56 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" 
<christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 7/18/06, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think this is going to come down to philosphy.  If you are on a 
dynamic IP,
>> you are unlikely to get reliable mail delivery no matter what you do.  
If you
>> are on a dynamic IP, then you should use the provided relayhost option 
for
>> Postfix installation and relay through your ISPs MTA.  For this use, 
getting
>> a FQDN is not necessary.
>>
>> So, I find that the current setup produces an appropriate result.
>
>I can't help but feel I'm being misunderstood.  My machine is on a
>static public IP address.  I used the Networking control panel to
>configure it.  The Networking control panel improperly formats the
>/etc/hosts file causing the /etc/postfix/main.cf file to inherit an
>incorrect setting (at least as far as I can tell).
>
OK.  The only Ubuntu box I have that has a hosts file like yours is on 
DHCP.  looks like I made an incorrect leap of judgement.  Sorry about that.

I'll see if I can investigate this further tomorrow.

Scott K