James Seymour:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:45:53 -0700
> Philip Prindeville <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Sorry about the noob questions, but it's been 12 years or more since
> > I stared at Postfix...
> >
> > First, is there a way to get an out-of-the-box (in my case, Postfix
> > 2.6.6 compiled for Centos6/EPEL6) to get $mydomain and $myhostname
> > from the canonicalized hostname?
>
> I thought it did that, by default?
Postfix gets $mydomain and $myhostname from the actual hostname.
There is a very large nasty comment in the get_hostname.c source
file to discourage idiots who insist on calling network hostname
lookup routines from that code.
Wietse
