Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong domain in e-mail failure messages

[Peter Humphrey]

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