localhost.localdomain

[Tony Arnold]

Johann,

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 12:04 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> Why does Evolution and Sylpheed try to connect to postfix on my computer
> using "localhost.localdomain" in the smtp-conversation while a mailname
> and hostname is defined on the computer?

I've not checked this out fully, but my machine does the same thing.

In my Postfix main.cf, I have mymynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, which is the
list of networks for which I will relay mail, i.e., the local machine
only. In /etc/hosts, the first name defined (i.e., the reverse name
translation) for 127.0.0.1 is localhost.localdomain, so I presume that
is why this name is used in the postfix logs etc.

One possible way to fix it is to put the real name of the machine
in /etc/hosts against 127.0.0.1 as its first name.

Regards,
Tony.
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