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

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> 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.
>
Well, you answered my question from my last reply
before you saw it.  And everyone be aware that I
haven't yet gone back to the mutt, postfix conf file
to add the latest FQDN which I feel from your comments
may work inside my lan which is all I want. BWDIK. 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net