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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:18:41 +1030
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Identity for HELO in sendmail
Message-ID:  <200602152318.41440.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <43F2ECAB.7020300@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <200602151639.06855.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <43F2ECAB.7020300@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:26 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > I can now send e-mails using the standard 'mail' utility
> > to most destinations but apparently 'alpha.home' is still
> > used as the source domain in the HELO command and as this
> > just my private hostname for the machine it is not known at
> > the receiving end in spite of the
> > FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) which I naively expected to be
> > applied here.
>
> define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `smtp.internode.on.net')dnl
>

Thanks Matthew;
I think the most appropriate name for me may be 
`mail.internode.on.net'. At least 'dig' reparts it as an 'A' 
record.

> Note that the name presented in the HELO line should be
> resolvable as a valid 'A' record in the DNS.  It doesn't have
> to be anything to do with the domain names used in the e-mail
> headers.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew



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