Rudy Gevaert: > Citeren Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org>: > > > Rudy Gevaert: > >> Dear list, > >> > >> This morning I stumbled upon a strange problem. Mail delivery to an > >> exchange backend did not work: > >> > >> refused to talk to me: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address) > >> > >> After some troubleshooting an googling I found > >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291828. > >> > >> When using the contents of a file for the smtp_helo_name (or with e.g. > >> myorigin) it appends a '.' to the end of the hostname. And according > >> to the rfc this isn't allowed. > >> > >> Why is postfix appending the . ? > > > > Postfix as released from postfix.org does not support > > smtp_helo_name from file. > > Dear Wietse, > > I can now see I was not clear in my explanation. But I made a mistake. > > The problem was that I said that myhostname=/etc/mailname and this > does not work as I thought!
Postfix as released from postfix.org does not support reading any main.cf parameter value from file, so you need to take this up with your distributor. Wieste