FQDN Misery Re: To: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail? & amavisd-new Install

[David Koski]

On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:55, Derek Broughton wrote:
> David Koski wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > On Thursday 08 November 2007 06:10, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> Er, no.  It may be technically true but it _isn't_ what your system
> >> expects and describes as an FQDN.  An FQDN is simply a domain name
> >> _containing_ a dot, and ending with one of the recognized TLDs (Top
> >> Level Domain).
> >
> > For local only delivery and "masquerading" the default local domain
> > named "localdomain" should suffice as an FQDN for most purposes.
>
> Not for anything I ever used.  Once you start installing mail servers -
> even if they don't plan to go outside the LAN - they seem to want real
> domains. iirc, postfix (which Leonard is trying to set up) _specifically_
> complained about localdomain.


That is odd.  It is routine for me to install workstations without "real" 
FQDNs.  My desktop for one has an FQDN as tiikeri.localnet, only because I 
prefer localnet over localdomain.  Postfix works like a champ.  You just need 
to configure postfix.  There is nothing magic about "real" FQDNS as far as 
mail delivery is concerned.  Specifically check in main.cf:  myhostname, 
myorigin.  I think by default:

myorgin = /etc/mailname.

David