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Re: postfix /etc/mailname



On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:58:38PM +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos said
> Dear list,
> I have the following problem:
> 
> If I change the /etc/mailname file to something different than
> "localhost", then all the mail for root goes to root@host.name

I'm pretty sure this should be your actual hostname that you want mail
to appear to come from.  You should add the hostname to the
"mysdestination" list in /etc/postfix/main.cf so that postfix will
accept mail for it, however.

> If I have the "localhost" entry, then some mailservers reject my mail as
> my servername is not a valid one.

The above should fix this.

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