From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A103C13888F for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 189D721C001; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF48DE07DA for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZleMB-0009VH-Ui for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:45:44 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong domain in e-mail failure messages Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:45:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3794944.VRxf9nqzRF@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <9204214.lqrazB3zVk@wstn> References: <9204214.lqrazB3zVk@wstn> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: d1139efa-84a9-4d60-b2af-96545327d978 X-Archives-Hash: b1796c17872ed46277fbb039abca2556 On Sunday 11 October 2015 12:11:07 I wrote: > I've just received a delivery failure message from my ISP, zen.co.uk, saying > it couldn't deliver an e-mail I'd sent. There's only one thing wrong (apart > from the reason for the failure, which is out of my control). It's shown in > the second line of the failure notice: > > Received: from [xx.xx.xx.xx] (helo=wstn.localnet) > > I've bowdlerised the IP, and wstn is the name of this box, but where did it > get localnet from? I've grepped /etc for it, and I've searched my home > directory tree for it. Both searches turned up empty. > > I use KMail, which is set up to send all outgoing mail directly to my ISP > via SMTP; no other box is involved. And I hope my ADSL router isn't > interfering. I think what must have happened is that, in my KMail identity, I'd left the default domain name as it was - just the host part. I've now added the network part to it, and I'll see how that goes. Thanks for the ideas. -- Rgds Peter