From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 09:08:48 CST

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Bill Cole:
> At 9:16 AM -0500 12/3/07, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> >If the result from gethostname() is an unqualified name ("sundown")
> >then Postfix sets mydomain to "localdomain" unless you specify
> >mydomain or myhostname in main.cf.
>
> What is the rationale behind that?

The rationale is users without domain (home networks) don't have
to make up some bogus domain name just to make Postfix happy.

I thought let's lower the threshold for acceptance a little.

        Wietse

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