On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:08 +1300, Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote: > Have had this before.... > quick fix on old systems was to have your FDQN first in the > list in your /etc/hosts file. > but not usually in the localhost line though... > So I think Steve's fix to the setup of opera is probably > the most likely. > > Usually I have lines in my host file of > 132.181.1.10 mailhost.my.domain mailhost anyotheralias > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > If you have none of the actual IP address line, then by > default it looks like it sends the loopback address of > localhost. > > Speculation...Would that mean you ONLY have a loopback > address in your hosts file because you get random IP addresses > when you boot (DHCP)so can't have it permanently in hosts file > and the DHCP is not putting the entry in???
Ubuntu these days has a hosts file like so; 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 sodium.nice.net.nz sodium OP: Yes a lot of mail servers will reject mail with a non-FQDN HELO or even a domain that doesn't exist. It's a spam reducing technique. hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's Open Source Hardware Supplier
