Today Andrey Nepomnyaschih wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got some problems with sendmail. Going through logs I've found that > sendmail identifies itself as localhost.<domain>. where I would expect > it should be just [localhost]. > > Dec 5 13:09:00 watchdog sm-msp-queue[339]: gB5A016S000321: > to=xxx@<domain>, ctladdr=xxx (x/x), delay=00:08:59, xdelay=00:00:00, > mailer=relay, pri=120314, relay=localhost.<domain>. [127.0.0.1], > dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (gB5A90GS000340 Message accepted for delivery) > > I believe that it just canonify the localhost name by appending > <domain>. to it. Because when I change /etc/hosts > from > 127.0.0.1 localhost > to > 127.0.0.1 localhost.
The first one is relative, the second is absolute path. I think, in the second case is nothing to canonify. > > I get: > Dec 5 12:12:41 watchdog sendmail[247]: gB59CfNb000247: to=xxx@<domain>, > ctladdr=x (x/x), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, > pri=30036, relay=[localhost] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent > (gB59CfQo000248 Message accepted for delivery) > > Sounds really strange because testing rules gives me the following: > > $ sendmail -bt > ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) > Enter <ruleset> <address> > > 3 localhost > canonify input: localhost > Canonify2 input: localhost > Canonify2 returns: localhost > canonify returns: localhost > > So the question is why do sendmail canonify the localhost name? > See the docs for FEATURE(`nocanonify', `canonify_hosts'), CANONIFY_DOMAIN(`my.domain'), etc. /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/doc/op/op.* -andrew > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message