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  • February 22, 2007 at 7:22 am #368363
    EVDOalex
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    OSX 10.4.8 server’s IP address is continually getting listed by cbl.abuseat.org.
    the reason given is:

    [i]Note: 209.242.15.90 was found to be using the following name during connections:

    localhost

    Which is an illegal name according to the RFC2821 SMTP mail protocol standards. RFC2821 requires that the machines claim names that are a fully qualified domain names or IP addresses enclosed in square brackets.[/i]

    i think the offending mail header is this one:[i]
    Received: from localhost.localdomain (209.242.15.90) by mail.evdoinfo.com[/i]

    can someone tell me where to look to change ‘localhost.localdomain’ ?

    FYI, email is being sent via php app called supporttrio, via SMTP server which is EIMS-X.

    February 22, 2007 at 4:16 pm #368370
    EVDOalex
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    [QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]You need to look at your EIMS configuration. As that should be where you set what the server declares itself as.

    I would presume that you don’t have reverse DNS working for your server, as EIMS probably used that to come up with localhost.[/p][/QUOTE]

    actually, i do have a reverse for EIMS box:
    http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=209.242.15.90

    and on startup, EIMS acknowledges this.

    But in this case, EIMS is receiving the email from postfix (i think?) or is it php?
    whichever it is, when EIMS receives the email to send it out, the originator is who is identified as ‘localhost.localdomain’.

    what i think i need to do, is change settings to email originating from postfix/php, identifies itself properly.

    of course… what do i know? if i really knew what i needed to do, i wouldnt be asking, right? 😯

    November 7, 2007 at 9:56 pm #370465
    jimlooney
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    I would be eternally grateful if someone knows how to fix this. I am having the exact same problem. Mail being sent from php or perl is sending with the localhost.localhost described above. I am now listed on two blacklists because of this, however I can find no where to fix the problem.

    I have edited the postfix .cf file, setting mydomain, myhostname etc. to the correct values – but still no luck.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

    Thanks in advance!

    November 8, 2007 at 1:23 pm #370469
    jimlooney
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    so by passing the -r flag from perl and php to sendmail/postfix, it seems to take care of the From=localhost.localhost weirdness. However, I’d like to know if anyone knows how to keep postfix from defaulting to this localhost designation – because if I put up any open source apps (like phpBB or SugarSuite), I’d rather not have to search through their source code and update all of their uses of the mail() function.

    Any ideas?

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