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

[Scott Silva]

on 2/1/2008 12:41 PM Athan Dimoy spake the following:
> 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
Sounds like some of the company "policies" here. Many make no sense, or are 
written by people who have no clue how things work, or any thing resembling a 
real standard.
I would bring up to whoever maintains policy (human resources?) that is an 
incorrect policy, and I believe it violates rfc's. It could cause you problems 
with other software in the future.


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