Re: [monit] Alerts and HELO/MessageID hostname issue

[Athan Dimoy]

Scott Silva <ssilva <at> sgvwater.com> writes:

> Your hostname is not a FQDN. You shouldn't use your domain name as the 
> complete hostname. A FQDN needs a machine name in addition to the domain 
name. 
> So your machine could just be named mail.example.com also.

I know that Scott, however the specific machine cannot be renamed to anything 
else (company policy). Also, Postfix which is run on the same server, works 
just fine configured to use mail.example.com as hostname (mail.example.com has 
a valid A record pointing to same IP).

All other server apps (eg PHP, mailx, system alerts etc) use system's sendmail 
and have no problem using mail.inray.com for both HELO/EHLO and message ID.

If monit was able to send alerts using system's sendmail, it would work too.
Anyway in its current form, I think that is easier to implement a "hostname" 
configurable option.

Athan