Rudy Gevaert:
> Citeren Wietse Venema <[email protected]>:
>
> > Rudy Gevaert:
> >> Dear list,
> >>
> >> This morning I stumbled upon a strange problem. Mail delivery to an
> >> exchange backend did not work:
> >>
> >> refused to talk to me: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address)
> >>
> >> After some troubleshooting an googling I found
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291828.
> >>
> >> When using the contents of a file for the smtp_helo_name (or with e.g.
> >> myorigin) it appends a '.' to the end of the hostname. And according
> >> to the rfc this isn't allowed.
> >>
> >> Why is postfix appending the . ?
> >
> > Postfix as released from postfix.org does not support
> > smtp_helo_name from file.
>
> Dear Wietse,
>
> I can now see I was not clear in my explanation. But I made a mistake.
>
> The problem was that I said that myhostname=/etc/mailname and this
> does not work as I thought!
Postfix as released from postfix.org does not support reading any
main.cf parameter value from file, so you need to take this up with
your distributor.
Wieste
