After connecting to a SMTP server, a client identifies themselves with a HELO/EHLO command, like so:
HELO my-domain.example While typically this is the client FQDN, that's not actually required and in some setups the client needs to use some other name (it just so happens that I'm in that situation). Django's SMTP client defaults to `socket.getfqdn()`. https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/core/mail/ backends/smtp.py#L69 https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/core/mail/utils.py#L16 This is a very good default but there is no option to set it to something else. I would propose a new option for it. Some possible names are: - `MAIL_LOCAL_HOSTNAME`: because `local_hostname` is the name of the argument used by `smtplib` for this. - `MAIL_HELO_DATA`: a clearer name, `helo_data` is used in the exim configuration. - `MAIL_HELO_NAME`: even more clear, `helo_name` is used in the postfix configuration. A workaround for this is to setup a SMTP server locally, such as Exim or Postfix, that simply forwards the emails from Django. Best wishes David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/eaa81e50-cfd0-4cbd-ac75-3ad36fc50c51n%40googlegroups.com.