Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:23:32 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FQDN Hostnames, Sendmail and Spamassassin. Message-ID: <20070731002332.606975c9@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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I have my hostname in rc.conf defined as a FQDN - ending in a dot. IIRC it's needed to prevent sendmail waiting a long time for DNS if the network is unavailable at boot-time. I recently noticed that when I send myself email through sendmail I'm hitting this spamassassin test at my email service: 2.3 FH_HELO_ENDS_DOT Helo ends with a dot It doesn't actually matter to me, because I don't use sendmail much, but what are the rights and wrongs of this? I was under the impression that any name used in an helo/ehlo should be a FQDN.
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