[Solved] Postfix and hostname

xy16644 · #1 July 29th, 2009, 14:09

Currently I have a server called:

alpha.mydomain.com

but my MX record is:

mail.mydomain.com (reverse DNS is setup for this domain too)

When I send email it appears to come from alpha.mydomain.com in the message headers. I dont want to change the hostname of the server so how can I force Postfix to send all out going mail as coming from mail.mydomain.com?

I run the latest version of Postfix, Procmail and Spamassasin all on the same box running FreeBSD 7.2.

Does the hostname of the server have to match your MX record or can it be different? If you can change it then where? I cant seem to find it...

dennylin93 · #2 July 29th, 2009, 15:22

Usually $myhostname is set as the output of $ hostname. What you want to change should be $myorigin in /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf. Another option is masquerading, but I believe it's usually used for mail gateways.

I have a mail server called mail.example.com, but I want the mail to appear from example.com:

Code:

$myhostname = mail.example.com
$mydomain = example.com
$myorigin = $mydomain

I'm using this configuration, but there's something weird with Mutt. It still sends mail that appears from mail.example.com. All other clients are OK though.

Take a look at Postfix Configuration Parameters and Postfix Address Rewriting.

xy16644 · #3 July 29th, 2009, 15:42

Changing:

Code:

myorigin = $mydomain

to

Code:

myorigin = mail.mydomain.com

didn't change anything for me. But changing:

Code:

myhostname = mail.mydomain.com

seemed to do the trick!

If I look in the message headers, the before snaphot looks like this:

Code:

Received: from alpha.mydomain.com ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xx]) by col0-mc4-f10.Col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);

after making the change:

Code:

Received: from mail.mydomain.com ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xx]) by col0-mc2-f27.Col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);

Thanks very much for your help!

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