Machine name: localhost

"Eamonn Sullivan" <eamonn.sullivangmail.com> writes:

> On 9/9/06, David Abrahams <daveboost-consulting.com> wrote:
>> "Eamonn Sullivan"
<eamonn.sullivangmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > localhost is a standard name.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>> > You want it in there.
>>
>> Hmm, not so sure about that.  Whatever is sticking
it on every line of
>> /var/log/syslog, at least, expects to find a more
useful name I'm
>> sure.  Every machine is localhost to itself.  I'm
pretty sure those
>> syslogs are supposed to identify the machine
usefully.
>>
>> > What are you using
>> > to send the email? It looks like (from above)
that you're using emacs,
>> > is that correct?
>>
>> Gnus/emacs.  And I have used it successfully it to
send through that
>> server for years (from NTEmacs, i.e. on a windoze
box).  I never see
>> localhost in my mail headers sent from that
machine, even when mail
>> comes back to me for whatever reason.
>
> One other thing just occured to me. It's possible that
the new SMTP
> server you're connecting to is configured to work only
with its own
> domain. On Windows, are you connecting to the network
any differently,
> such as through a VPN?

It's not an on-windows/on-linux thing.  I'd probably see
the same
thing if I pulled out a Windows box here, except that
something about
where message-mail gets the hostname from probably arranges
to insert
something more intelligent than "localhost." 
It's something about the
state of this machine, which is masked by my usual cable
provider's
server, but is revealed where I am.

I've enclosed headers from when I send email to the same
address (and
Cc myself) in the two situations.

What I notice is that when it doesn't work, the Return-Path
and Sender
headers are "davelocalhost."

And note that I'm not just arbitrarily siezing on
"localhost" as the
problem.  This is in response to:

504 <davelocalhost>: Sender address rejected: need
fully-qualified address

> Also, most services on Ubuntu are configured to connect
only through
> localhost, unless you change that, so that's why
you're seeing so many
> instances of "localhost" in
/var/log/syslog.

Hm.  Most syslogs I see posted by users of other distros
have the
local machine name in them.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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