On Sunday, October 11, 2015 12:11:07 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've just received a delivery failure message from my ISP, zen.co.uk, saying > it couldn't deliver an e-mail I'd sent. There's only one thing wrong (apart > from the reason for the failure, which is out of my control). It's shown in > the second line of the failure notice: > > Received: from [xx.xx.xx.xx] (helo=wstn.localnet) > > I've bowdlerised the IP, and wstn is the name of this box, but where did it > get localnet from? I've grepped /etc for it, and I've searched my home > directory tree for it. Both searches turned up empty. > > I use KMail, which is set up to send all outgoing mail directly to my ISP > via SMTP; no other box is involved. And I hope my ADSL router isn't > interfering. > > My head's getting sore from being scratched. Has anyone a clue for me?
In your SMTP-server config, did you configure "Send custom hostname to server"? Also, check the output of " hostname -f ". -- Joost
