Sander Smeenk wrote:
>Quoting Toralf Lund (toralf@???):
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>>Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=mydomain)
>>Now, this seems to cause problems with some blacklists etc. on the net;
>>apparently they think "localhost" is evil.
>>Questions:
>> 1. Why?
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>'localhost' can't be traced back if the message received is classified
>as spam. I guess that's the only reason to think of localhost as evil.
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>> 2. Is there a good way to avoid including this localhost reference?
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>Can you have your mailer connect to $your_internet_ip instead of
>127.0.0.1 or localhost? That might make a difference.
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I think the only way to do that would be to hardcode the address, and
I'd rather not do that. Like I said, I want a *portable* config and the
IP address may actually change, or the users might use the same mailer
config on different hosts.
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>>I guess updatingreceived_header_text is a possible solution, but has
>>anyone done it?
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>Hmm. I'd look for a different solution and hold this as a last resort.
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>> 3. Should I configure the mailers differently?
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>Try that what I described above. You could also try and change your
>/etc/hosts, and have it say:
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>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.$yourrealdomain
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>That way, the receiving host can trace back localhost.$yourrealdomain,
>and it would be less evil.
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>HTH,
>Sander.
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