On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 07:44:58PM +0200, Moe wrote:
> I was the guy complaining on IRC, so I'd like to jump in and clarify:
>
> * The bug is still present in 2.7.0, which is not 8 years old
There is no bug. Postfix is working *exactly* as designed. And the
design has been given much thought.
> The problem boils down to postfix expecting 'gethostname()' to return
> a FQDN. This not the case on a properly configured linux host,
> regardless of the distribution (this is not debian specific).
No, Postfix does not expect this. Rather Postfix defaults the mydomain
setting from gethostname() if possible, but otherwise uses "localdomain".
> If postfix goes to guess the FQDN when it isn't hardcoded in
> main.cf then it could just as well do it right, no?
Postfix does the right thing.
> The right way, as explained by Mike Paul in that ticket, would be to
> call gethostbyname() on the return value of gethostname() and then split
> the result of *that* into hostname and domainname.
No, that would in fact be wrong, for reasons long ago considered and
settled.
--
Viktor.
