Re: Zmailer is using the wrong domain name!

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:59:14PM -0400, Gerard Hickey wrote:
> Is there anyone out there that can give me some guidance? 
> 
> I send a message to the list two days ago that I hoped would generate
> some ideas of why Zmailer is replacing the domain name on all the
> email that it is processing. 

I didn't see it, although it is possible that I junked couple
"for approval" filtered messages.

> I am finding that any address in a mail message (From:, To:, Cc:,
> etc.) that has a domain that Zmailer processes messages for, Zmailer
> is replacing that domain name with the name of the machine. This is
> getting frustrating and I am not able to find anything on the net or
> in the archives that gives me an indication of why this is happening. 

I think you have following kind of line in your   localnames  file:

	.	mail.kernelrom.com

Using '.' there is BAD IDEA.

> Here are some examples:
> 
>    Mail received as          Address after Zmailer processes message 
> =======================================================================
> hickey@kernelrom.com         hickey@mail.kernelrom.com
> info@moac.org                info@mail.kernelrom.com
> webmaster@worldofwaterson.net   webmaster@mail.kernelrom.com
> 
> Basically any address that Zmailer processes for any of the local
> domains (real or virtual) is getting the domain name replaced by the
> hostname. 
> 
> I really can not beleive that people have not seen this before and it
> must be something trivial that I have setup on my end. What's more is
> that I can not find anything even remotely close to it in the Zmailer
> documentation. 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what to go look at?
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Gerard Hickey			hickey@kernelrom.com

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/Matti Aarnio	<mea@nic.funet.fi>
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