[Pymilter] hostname in Authentication-Results

Marco Moock mm at dorfdsl.de
Wed Mar 12 15:44:15 EDT 2025


Am 11.03.2025 um 18:11:45 Uhr schrieb Stuart D Gathman:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Marco Moock wrote:
> 
> >> That seems totally wrong to me.  What is the justification?  Where
> >> is an example?  
> >
> > man 5 hostname in Debian.
> > |It is recommended that this name contains only a single label, i.e.
> > without any dots.  
> 
> Fedora says:
> 
> | Historically  this file was supposed to only contain the hostname
> and | not the full canonical FQDN.  Nowadays  most software  is able
> to  cope | with a full FQDN here. This file is read at boot time by
> the system | initialization scripts to set the hostname.

Are that still the old scripts or is that handled by systemd meanwhile?

> I think your issue should become a bug, and I'll see about obtaining
> the HELO name via milter API as first choice. 

This would be the best choice as it covers the case the milter runs on
a remote machine.

-- 
Gruß
Marco

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