Machine name: localhost

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 9/9/06, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> "Eamonn Sullivan" <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > localhost is a standard name.
>
> Sure.
>
> > You want it in there.
>
> Hmm, not so sure about that.  Whatever is sticking it on every line of
> /var/log/syslog, at least, expects to find a more useful name I'm
> sure.  Every machine is localhost to itself.  I'm pretty sure those
> syslogs are supposed to identify the machine usefully.
>
> > What are you using
> > to send the email? It looks like (from above) that you're using emacs,
> > is that correct?
>
> Gnus/emacs.  And I have used it successfully it to send through that
> server for years (from NTEmacs, i.e. on a windoze box).  I never see
> localhost in my mail headers sent from that machine, even when mail
> comes back to me for whatever reason.

One other thing just occured to me. It's possible that the new SMTP
server you're connecting to is configured to work only with its own
domain. On Windows, are you connecting to the network any differently,
such as through a VPN?

Also, most services on Ubuntu are configured to connect only through
localhost, unless you change that, so that's why you're seeing so many
instances of "localhost" in /var/log/syslog.

-Eamonn