Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5RC3 no longer honors mts.conf localname setting for Message-ID?

[JerryHeyman]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:55:10 -0400, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:

> I see from your later message you found the -msgid flag in your .mh_profile,
> so skipping over that ...
> 
> >>> BTW, while I am looking at this, it seems even more bizarre that
> >>> LocaleName will apply "localdomain" even when it's ignoring "localname".
> >
> >> Not at all; if localname is unqualified, then it makes perfect sense
> >> to append localdomain.
> >
> >But does the same apply to the result of getaddrinfo?  Hard to tell.
> 
> Hrm.  I guess I hadn't completely thought about the implications
> of how localdomain was implemented; I didn't really think about the
> issue of LocalName(0) versus LocalName(1).  But your point is well
> taken; it doesn't really make sense to apply localdomain to both,
> does it?  I think that if you're using localname you would be
> expected to supply a FQDN, and localdomain should only apply in the
> LocalName(1) case.
> 
> My gut feeling is that localdomain is so rarely used nowadays that
> it's not worth fixing it for 1.5.  Thoughts from anyone else?  For
> post-1.5 I'd be fine with either using localdomain for only the
> LocalName(1) case or junking support for it completely.  Or perhaps
> doing something else altogether.  Thoughts?

fwiw, I've always used a localname entry in my mts.conf file.

Whether I need to or not, I don't know - it might be ancient voodoo that
I've never updated.

I do know that I needed it when I wanted to use address@hidden as 
my return address rather than address@hidden - as the
machine name isn't exposed to the internet, but my domainname is.

This has changed a bit over the years because providers have stopped
allowing open relays (which is a good thing).  Now I have had to
enable masquerade and adding a ReplyTo: line to each of the components.

I liked it better 20yrs ago when the internet was a much kinder
gentler place :-)

> 
> --Ken

jerry
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