On Sunday 11 October 2015 12:11:07 I wrote: > 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.
I think what must have happened is that, in my KMail identity, I'd left the default domain name as it was - just the host part. I've now added the network part to it, and I'll see how that goes. Thanks for the ideas. -- Rgds Peter
